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 main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

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

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

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.