“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.”

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”

“Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.”

“In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.”

“In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.”

“...Things happenedwhen you were little. Things youdon't remember now, and don't wantto. But they need to escape,need to worm their way outof that dark place in your brainwhere you keep them stashed.”

“There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.”

“...Things happenedwhen you were little. Things youdon't remember now, and don't wantto. But they need to escape,need to worm their way outof that dark place in your brainwhere you keep them stashed.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”