There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.