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

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

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

There is no crime without precedent. 

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

What man was ever content with one crime?

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

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

To live outside the law you must be honest.  

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

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

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.