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

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

What man was ever content with one crime?

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

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

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

There is no crime without precedent. 

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

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

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

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

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