Well, to the law, you’re an accessory. Before the fact. - David Mamet

But shame, a breaking open of the heart before God, leads, so the Rabbis say, to that true self-knowledge necessary for change.

I have sworn off the news because there is nothing new, and reiteration of the well-known and unfortunate serves no purpose other than as the bad narcotic of despair.

Matrimony and monogamy have forever been linked with property and inheritance, the nuclear family, in the West, having been decided upon through trial and error as the most effective unit for preservation of both.