Great Throughts Treasury

"He paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood."

"He shakes his head as if he hates to do what he?s about to do, and says, Your Honor, I have another bit of video that I think might help us here. It?s the end of the fight five years ago with Corliss Beane. I stand and say, Your Honor, I know nothing about this. It was not disclosed to me. Max is ready because he?s been planning"

"He pulled out an 8 x 10 black-and-white photo, a mug shot of a shady-looking character who gave every indication of being a veteran criminal. Bolick went on, Guy?s name is Jack Leeper, a ten-time loser. Distant cousin to May Finnemore, even more distant to April. He grew up around here, drifted away a long time ago, became a career thug, petty thief, drug dealer, and so on. Got busted in California for kidnapping ten years ago, sentenced to life with no parole. Escaped two weeks ago. This afternoon we get a tip that he might be in this area. Theo looked at the sinister face of Jack Leeper and felt ill. If this thug had April, then she was in serious trouble. Bolick continued, Last night around seven thirty, Leeper here walks into the Korean Quick Shop four blocks away, buys cigarettes and beer, gets his face captured on the surveillance cameras."

"He missed being broke, because when he had nothing he owed nothing and most of his classmates were in the same boat. Now that he had an income he worried constantly about mortgages, the overhead, credit cards, and realizing the American dream of becoming affluent. Not wealthy, just affluent."

"His head is securely fixed in a hemispheric focused ultrasound brain transducer (fig. 2). The transducer is capable of transmitting more than 1,000 intersecting beams of ultrasound energy through the scalp and skull to the tumor with a high degree of accuracy and without damaging the"

"Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement."

"How could homosexuals possibly screw up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?"

"He was definitely part of the gang, but he didn?t want to get his hands dirty. There were four trucks, and they drove slowly away from the settlement, not far, to a row of sycamore trees. Seth and I knew the place well because we had fished in the creek. There were five or six tall sycamore trees in a perfect row; thus the"

"Her shoes were short heels, open toe, no straps, red leather, high-class-tart stuff."

"Her destination was the hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, a town of twenty thousand."

"He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said."

"He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money."

"Her eyes suddenly darting from David?s to Wally?s. That?s the deal. Who is it? There?s a man two blocks over, used to play poker with Percy, croaked last year in the shower two months after my Percy passed. I know for a fact he was on Krayoxx. Wally?s eyes were wild. What?s his name? You said cash, right? Five hundred cash."

"He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all."

"I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for a while to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book."

"I don?t trust judges. Perhaps it?s the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions."

"I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalized message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same color as my signature."

"I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not."

"I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening."

"I can?t stop them. Maybe I can embarrass them from time to time, cost the City some money, but what they?re doing here is happening everywhere. We live in a police state and everybody supports the cops."

"I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it."

"I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at."

"I am currently reading, "The Broker" by . it is a little slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better"

"I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know."

"I don't want to force my politics on my readers."

"I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served."

"I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them."

"I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything."

"I have neither the talent nor the patience for the usual mating rituals?the stalking, the accidental encounters, the blind dates, the silly gifts, the awkward phone calls, the referrals from friends, the endless Internet chatting. Nor do I have the guts to go online and lie about myself to strange women. And, I fear I?m forever scorched and gun-shy from the Judith disaster. How can one human possess so much meanness? Naomi"

"I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape."

"I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics."

"I know for sure that a crime is being planned. He said some things any father would say, and I?m sure he?s having thoughts any father would have. But as far as actually planning a crime, I don?t think so. Secondly,"

"I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour."

"I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work."

"I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial."

"I love it. The FBI is the most powerful crime - fighting organization in the world, with the best technology money can buy, and you're relying on a thirteen -year old kid who thinks he can identify a person by the way he walks."

"I struggle with racism every day."

"I sued the City for excessive force and got a million bucks. Not one dime of which, by the way, came out of the pockets of the cops who planned the raid. As always, it came from the taxpayers. The criminal charges against Sonny were later dismissed, so the raid was a complete waste of time, money, and energy."

"I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking."

"I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do."

"I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way."

"I was never a bully and I never started a fight. And I didn?t like to fight, but if the other guy pushed me around, then I hit him back."

"I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried."

"I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally."

"I?ve lost my love for money. It?s the curse of the devil."

"If the cops can?t convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion."

"I?ve learned to bite my tongue. My tongue has scars."

"If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. The"

"If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed."

"If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough."