You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.