Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

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

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.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

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

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