Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

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 don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn’t want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.