Now there is no murder without a motive.
No crime can be successful without luck!
Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same.
Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not – then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is – the arrogant criminal who kills not for profit – but for an idea. He has usurped the functions of le bon Dieu.
If it is necessary for a criminal to be a consummate actress, then by all means assume her to be one.
Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.
Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped.
A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.
