Murder By Wit

“(S)omeone says they do not read crime fiction, only literary fiction. ‘Oh,’ I say, ‘So you never read ‘Crime & Punishment’ or 'An American Tragedy’ or ‘Lolita?’ The first is about a brutal senseless murder, the second about a social-climbing murder and the last, ‘Lolita,’ a jailhouse memoir written by a pedophile and a murderer.’ That usually shuts them up.”

— Jonathan Santofler