“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.”

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

“Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.”

“To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.”

“It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.”

“Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.”

“The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.”