In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.