If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

- Rene Balcer

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

- Rene Balcer

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

- Rene Balcer

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important …

- Rene Balcer

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

- Rene Balcer

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

- Rene Balcer

Justice is a jagged road.

- Rene Balcer

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

- Rene Balcer

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

- Rene Balcer