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.

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

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

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

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