#Crime

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it."

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car."

"We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke."

"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data."

"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

"Bite me."-Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books."

"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."

"Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it."

"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"

"I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!"

"Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress."

"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men."