Who said “Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into…”?

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

“Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”

“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”

“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”

“Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear!”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”

“There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.”

“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.”

“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”