“We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly pu…” — Karl A. Menninger

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.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.