"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide"

"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian"

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it"

"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens"

"Drunkenness is temporary suicide"

"It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen"