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

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

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

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

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

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