I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

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

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.

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

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.