Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

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

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.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

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.