True Crime

“Good people are always so sure they’re right.”

Barbara Graham, on entering California’s gas chamber, where she was executed, some say unjustly, June 3, 1955. (Quoted in Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions by Frederick Drimmer)

“I’ll tell you briefly what I think about newspapermen: the hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn’t elevate one of them to the depths of degradation.”

Nothing Sacred. Screenplay by Ben Hecht.