“In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.”
“The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure.”
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”
“The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.”
“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
“A hunter-gatherer familly shares what it has, whether that is information or food. To give to others is to be able to receive from others. Knowledge and food are stored, as it were, by being shared.”