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

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

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

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.

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

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