Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.
Poverty is a great equalizer
It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
I thought they were honest.’ ‘They are, but they’re bankers, remember.
He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
He's busy taking the fifth
He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.
As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I
Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm wh...
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a fam...
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.
Fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don’t show it.
The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
Some people have more guts than brains.
Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it’s about winning.
Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake.
In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.