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

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

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

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

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

the possession of power brings on madness.

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

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

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

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.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Beyond the dark water of the womb there is an entire universe to be dealt with.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

I'm just sayin', I don't like fun.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.