You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

The only thing we have is each other.

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Never believe a man’s claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her

If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

The search is in the doing.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.