"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never"

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

"Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder"

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame"

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder"

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity"

"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens"

"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession"

"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness"

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder"