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

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

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.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

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.

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

I tend to write in the mornings.