Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

I'm all about the crockpot.

I think all politicians lie.

I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

All I ever wanted is you, Miss Zarish, ” he said while pulling her closer to himself.

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.