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.

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.

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

How you feel about marrying me?" he asked in my ear.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

No matter how you feel, you made progress today.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

A country without idols is nothing.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.