Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.