The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.