Vercetti Crime Quotes

#1. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#2. We live in a world where we rarely speak out and when someone does, often nobody is there to listen.

Jaycee Dugard

#3. The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#4. It made no sense, but I always wanted to create a home, even in the most unlikely places.

Wafaa Bilal

#5. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

#6. The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

Mikhail Bakunin

#7. Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.

Jodi Picoult