Sublime

Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails—eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.

‘Check the statute book, Professor. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009.’ ‘Refresh my memory.’ ‘Clearly prohibits any monetary gain by the description of a crime. Little thing called an “exploitative proceeds order”. Mainly ex-cons looking to cash in. But it comes in handy for us spooks now and then.’

``crime is a fact dependent upon law, an infraction rather than an action,''

crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations."

``the relapsed criminal is the rule rather than the exception,''