All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

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.

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.