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.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.