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.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

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

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.