"One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim."
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
"Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."