In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

There is no crime without precedent. 

I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.

To live outside the law you must be honest.  

Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.

The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.