When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.