the possession of power brings on madness.

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.

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

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.

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

Be the sun breaking through the clouds.

True emotions yearn for genre love of God

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Reasons are for peasants.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.