I dealt with people like this for 20 years. They will get up every day. They will kill somebody and go have some chicken at KFC. You will catch them eating chicken and drinking a beer after they just murdered three people. Sean, these people are out there. They're all over the place.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".

Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.