One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

The things that make us human often make us ill.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers