Quotes from Paul Levine

If you're a lawyer in a TV show, you handle only one case at a time, wrap it up by the last pitch for Pepto-Bismol, after which you're toting your briefcase down the courthouse steps with a beautiful client congratulating you for a wonderful job. Real life is different.

Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

Sure. I've been involved with a couple women who should have been committed.

Esta tarde ví llover, Vi gente correr, y no estabas tu.

When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, "We have nothing to say at this time.

True stories are full of holes. Life isn't a smooth freeway across a fruited plain. Life is a winding, pot-holed road, slick with oil, and studded with broken glass. It was one of Steve's laws. If a witness' testimony is too damn good, if there are no loose ends or contradictions, chances are his story is as phony as Donald Trump's hair.

Okay, so I'm not Yale Law Review, but I'm proud of my diploma. University of Miami. Night division. Top half of the bottom third of my class.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Like a drowning man with a Styrofoam cooler.

what brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

I believe anybody with guts and brains who's willing to work hard can make it.

Beatles. "All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.

subtlety sometimes eludes me. Why not just hit the nail on the head?

Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

Hey, it's Florida. Toss a beach ball at me, I'll empty my .45 into you and be home in time for Jimmy Kimmel.

Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

A shark that can't bite is nothing but a mermaid.

Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.

Conjecture piled on speculation and topped by guesswork." "That's called lawyering, Vic. Which, I might remind you, requires an open mind. Creative thinking. Fresh ideas. Not being rigid.

Lassiter once told him over drinks that he viewed the courtroom as a saloon in an old Western. He liked to burst through the swinging doors, knock over a poker table, pistol whip a gunfighter, toss a big lug through a window, and flip a chair into the mirror above the bar. "And that, Alex, is just when I say 'good morning.

A wise man states as true nothing he cannot prove

He pretended they were someone else's parents or recently released patients from a mental hospital who had arbitrarily chosen to root for him. Mainly, he figured they were a little goofy, but that was okay.

Thrasymachus said it was just a word invented by the victors to rule the losers. Like, we won the war; now we make the laws.

Mr. Lassiter, next week, you shall be permitted to do an autopsy if you wish. At least we know you won't kill the patient.