I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

Trust in this life is a hard thing to earn and keep.

An echo has no voice of its own.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.