Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.