Maybe at the very bottom of it… I really don’t like God. You know, it’s silly to say I don’t like God because I don’t believe in God, but in the same sense that I...

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into a separate part, and reclaiming those hidden-away memories us a complex process. So,...

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

why”—so as to leave nothing more. To speak, or think, of these many questions is to sound like I’m whining. But I am whining, about why….

My blessings outweight my regrets

I often think about a life of crime. But alas, politics isn’t for me.

There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.

Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like,” Porfiry Petrovitch began again, “but I can’t resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one...

Eve: “She completely eye-fucked you.” Roarke: “I know. I feel so cheap and used.” Eve: “Shit. You got off on it. Men always do.” Roarke: “True enough, which is why we’re so often cheap and...

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. A writing desk lies open...

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you’re made to believe the spell can never be broken.

I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes before someone walks in.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a confident swagger possess him. His spine lengthened, and his shoulders retracted. He should’ve...

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” – Stephanie Carovella

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond...

Chase stooped to inspect it. Angelo handed him a latex glove, which took Chase three attempts to pull on before tearing it. He had never had a good relationship with latex. He tried two more,...

Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.

Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn’t the 16,000 murders each year […]. That’s not the problem. The photo is the thing.

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

….. this isn’t some LA country rock jam reminiscing on the pyschtotropic pot pansies of Haight Ashbury . This is the soot and smut of London mate !

These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little...

Above all things, never think that you’re not visible to the naked eye or Justice. ~ Biniam Yibaleh

and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth...

Don’t feel guilty for a crime you have not committed – commit it and be guilt free

Most investigators don’t even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they’d ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once...

We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can’t even walk without help. How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You’re about a hundred and I’m a...

I am the keeper of my husband’s history. This is a self-appointed role. I plan to learn everything about his life of the past and carry him into a future that is bright with hope....

I am saying that very clearly. In some cases, evidence was not put in the court. In other cases, agreements were made between lawyers not to put the case to the court at all, particularly...

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. — Virgil

If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse?

I mean, the ones on trial are not like me in any way: they’re a different kind of human being. They live in a different world, they think different thoughts, and their actions are nothing...

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

This ‘vampire’ stuff is to stay right in this room. Until we have the assailant in custody we say nothing about these girls being drained of blood. No more rumors. No reports in the papers,”...

When you get to Hell, I’ll be sitting in the hot tub waiting.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Atrocities, however, refuse to be...

Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse....

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that...

I get it. I haven’t seen much of the real world yet. But let’s say I do get out there… and it turns out that it’s not even worth seeing? Or even worse.. what if...

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won’t get you.’ I love wearing that t-shirt.