I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

Poverty is a great equalizer

It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.