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

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

What man was ever content with one crime?

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

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

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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

A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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

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.