I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
