Who said “Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take…”?

“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”

“A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.”

“Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.”

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”

“We must love one another or die.”

“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”

“You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.”

“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”

“God bless the U.S.A., so large, So friendly, and so rich.”

“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”