Quotes from Paul Levine

Sin alma o corazón.

So this is your brilliant plan? To use yourself as bait. To get that psycho to try to kill you." He had a grin on his face that managed to be both childish and clueless. Like a boy who catches a viper and shows it to a girl in the misguided belief she will immediately want to start necking.

You don't buy a Supreme Court judge," Max said. "Nobody ever has.

The bailiff tucked the jurors into their windowless room where they could surf for porn on their PDAs, and the judge turned to me. "Mr. Lassiter, Ah assume you got some legal mumbo jumbo for the record." His Honor came from a family of gentleman farmers in Homestead by way of Kentucky, and his voice rippled with bourbon and branch water.

A good lawyer is part con man, part priest," I said. "No idea what you're talking about." "The con man promises riches if you hire him. The priest threatens hell if you don't.

Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?

Chrissy let go and poured herself a cup of coffee. She didn't light a cigarette. I'd been trying to get her to stop. I try to be a good influence on my clients. Don't kill anyone else and please stop smoking.

Magna est veritas. Great is truth.

Wearing an off-white skier's jumpsuit, he had a bullhorn in one hand, a walkie-talkie clipped to his belt, a digital thermometer zippered on his sleeve, and a revolver holstered on his hip.

garbage bag. They fly endless circles over the

Sometimes the truth will not set you free. Sometimes it will send you away for life.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Our prejudices and self-interest shape the world into what we want it to be, or fear it is.

chainlink fences topped with barbed wire, vacant lots covered with broken beer bottles, and Doberman pinschers with psychopathic personalities

rusty, overloaded freighters from the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Four Horsemen that destroy relationships. Criticism. Contempt. Defensiveness. Stonewalling.

We give ourselves the name Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man,' but of course, we are not born that way, and we don't gain wisdom from books. We learn how to live by living. Vive ut vivas—

A lawyer needs to know the truth. No, strike that. I can't speak for my brethren. I need to know the truth.

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

That's ridiculous. I've never sold a milligram of trayf in my life.

Your friend has an odd sense of color combinations." "The house belongs to an ex-cop," I said, as if that explained it.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain.