…men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he’s about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero‘s calm and a coward‘s resolve to survive at any price.

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read ‘The Day of the Jackal’ and ‘The Exorcist‘. I hadn’t read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

As soon as you say, “are you feeling X because I …” Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he’s the cause of his pain.

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who‘s going to run CBS?

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

One day’s life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, … The Day of the Jackal.

When are the world‘s political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, … trash can, clown face, … dollar bill with bat wings on it?

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

I don’t mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

Fix-it jackals can’t wait to fix it, because they don’t know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can’t enjoy intimacy.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he’ll jump in.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe’s Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De GaulleВ….

When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don’t allow institutions to determine what you do.

Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it’s not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can’t stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.

I’m thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.