As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.