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

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

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

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

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.