Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

People first make unhappy, then say stay happy.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

Shut your eyes and see.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.