No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

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.

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

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

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.