JOSHUA

“The thief’s underworld, which is different from that of the mafiosi, gang bangers, and racketeers, has many adages and observations. If you can’t do the time don’t mess with crime is the best-known. Another is: A thief’s nerve is in direct proportion to his financial condition. Or: Hard times make hard people.”
― Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon: A Memoir

“Convicts on the main line sent me books from the library. I’ve always been able to make it if I could read.”
― Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon: A Memoir

“The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle,”
― Donald E. Westlake, Dancing Aztecs

“Reading taught me that prison had been the crucible that had formed several great writers. Cervantes wrote much of Don Quixote in a prison cell, and Dostoyevski was a mediocre writer until he was sentenced to death, commuted within a few hours of execution, and then sent to prison in Siberia.”
― Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon: A Memoir