Who said “A functioning police state needs no police.”?

“A really good detective never gets married.”

“We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.”

“There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.”

“I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.”

“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”

“The face of evil is always the face of total need.”

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”

“So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”

“Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”