Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.