“Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to fo…” — Karl A. Menninger

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

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.