There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There are many levels of truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

For truth is always strange

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.