Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

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.

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

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.