What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

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.

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

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.

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

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.