“He recognized it and knew it. In othersclients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.”

“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference. But as long as I ...”

“The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.”

“She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.”

“Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?”

“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. Ive heard it called that, havent you, Mister Morgan? Thought I was gettin away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams...”

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delus...”