the possession of power brings on madness.

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.

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

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

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.

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