I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good

A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

The world is not fair. That's why it needs heroes. Play fair. Be a hero.

We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.

That's stupid, that's bias.. they lied, they don't wanna gift credit for anything

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

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