The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.