The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.

For the love of God, does anybody got a toothbrush?