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I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.