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

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 possession of power brings on madness.

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.

Born to fly, endless possibilities.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing … But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread

It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!