“I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.”

“And there's a cop over there.""What?" the boy said, glancing at the D.C. police officer that stood at the corner of the street, "You think that guy can do a better job protecting you than I can?"Actually, I thought Liz could have done a better job "protecting" me than he could, but instead I said, "No, I think if you don't leave me alone, I can scream and that cop will arrest you."Somehow the boy seemed to know it was a joke...”

“It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.”

“I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.”

“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”