Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.