The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The worst crime is faking it.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.