There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.