...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime