Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.