To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

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

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

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.

the possession of power brings on madness.

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

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!