Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.
Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
the possession of power brings on madness.
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.