“Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.”

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

1983

Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 7
Context: "For one crime there is no asylum even in the Club," whispered Horace the Snake, who had sharp ears for whispering. "For all other crimes we give asylum, for the most heinous crime in the universe we give no asylum."
"What is the most heinous crime in the universe?" Roadstrum asked.
"Killing a songbird."

The best Medicine. (Sinngedichte, I, 4, 41, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Source: Speak

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: The Other Side of the Story