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'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.

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 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.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

Integrity is never painless.

Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil.

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.