Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush like that. When you're using drugs and doing robberies, it's hard to distinguish whether you're doing robberies to support your drug habit, or doing drugs to support your robbery habit.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.