Johnny Depp Quotes

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

National criminal behavior is always defined by the perpetrator’s compulsion to forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the first line of defense. If that fails, the perpetrator’s attacks on the credibility of the victims.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

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.

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.

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

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

The crime film is the most honest American film.