I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.