Johnny Hughes romanticises liars, cheats and scum, why ???

[The Bride]

There's a difference between respecting somebody and being respectable. If you don't give a theif respect, you will underestimate them, and if you underestimate them you run the risk of being the sucker.

Some of the planning and organization that goes on behind some crimes is phenomenal. You don't have to approve of what they are doing, but you have to respect it.