If the human brain is really capable of having 60, 000 to 80, 000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.

Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.

Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.

Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

Nothing is easy, ” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

Art takes nature as its model.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.