Quotes from Caleb Carr

belief in what he called "context": the theory that every man's actions are to a very decisive extent influenced by his early experiences, and that no man's behavior can be analyzed or affected without knowledge of those experiences.

and we'll all be martialed to the task of protecting some obscure species of newt from the ravages of a predatory industrial giant bent on planting a fetid factory on the little amphibian's breeding ground.

There are certain things a man cannot control.

The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it—for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make…' " Mike

Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walküre

there's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. My

We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.

As you walked down the hallway you were likely to be tripped, spat at, cursed, and otherwise maltreated, particularly by those children whose only mental deficiency was that they'd been overindulged, and whose parents clearly could and should have saved themselves the trip to Kreizler's office.

spread back down over the earth and swallow up the ugly little nests of human beings what'd sprung up in the river valley.

If you're gonna catch criminals, you got to be a bit of one yourself.

Zawsze wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™, ?e istniejÄ… dwa typy ludzi: ci, którzy podniecajÄ… siÄ™ wszystkim, co wi??? siÄ™ z - jak by to uj?? - dziwakami, i ci, których to nie rusza.

All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place in those shadows all the more difficult.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make…'

The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing;

what if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within the killer to a distant experience of threat and violence and led him for reasons that we had not yet fully defined to take angry measures in his own defense?

The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with such severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essential y the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.

There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.

simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework)

everything I'd ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.

Quienes quieran ser jóvenes cuando sean viejos, deberán ser viejos cuando sean jóvenes. JOHN RAY, 1670

Mientras una parte de lo que percibimos penetra a través de nuestros sentidos a partir del objeto que tenemos ante nosotros, otra parte (y tal vez ésta sea la mayor) surge siempre de nuestra propia mente. William James Principios de psicología