Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.