Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

I didn't really want to be a celebrity. It just kind of happened to me.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.