“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”

“If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.”

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”

“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”

“Street Crime is the only logical response to America's drug policy just as terrorism is the only logical response to America's foreign policy”

“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.”