To live outside the law you must be honest.  

There is no crime without precedent. 

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

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

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

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

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

What man was ever content with one crime?

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

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. 

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