The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence….

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on..

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informe….

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in ….

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author..

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning..

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction..

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller..

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law..

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare..

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right..

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment..

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care ….

For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or th….

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a u….

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity..

I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a ….

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library busin….

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s….

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it..