Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

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

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

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.

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.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.