Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
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.