Punishment is a sort of medicine.

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

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

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

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

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

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

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.

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

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

To live outside the law you must be honest.  

What man was ever content with one crime?