Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

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

Basbanes makes you love books.

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.

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

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.

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