Charles Sheffield

It is one of the unfortunate aspects of the legal profession that excess carries no penalty. There is never, for a lawyer, such a thing as too much.

If you tried really hard, you could take that as a compliment.

Maddy was not consumed by the immediate pressures of the here and now. She had been provided with a fatal indulgence: time to think.

Forrest Singer, it always seemed to Saul, spoke as though the two of them were equals. Saul possibly held the slightly inferior position in the doctor’s eyes. Saul was the President of the United States, true; but Forrest Singer was an M.D.

If deadly violence were to be committed, he was like me. He would think it better to give than to receive.

Decisions based on incomplete information are one thing, a fact of political life. Decisions made with no information are another.

The important question wasn’t whether or not you thought you were the right one to lead. It was whether others believed you were.

Other people’s jobs always seemed easier than yours until you actually had to do them.

Some of the Argos Group records are awful strange. If I had to guess, I’d say there’s fiddlin’ going on that don’t sound like violins.

What purpose and will didn’t tell you, unfortunately, was how to do something that must be done.

The lead prosecutor told the jury at my trial that I was “A sick parasite, preying on society.”

Parasite on society; this, mind you, from a lawyer.

An old axiom: when you are totally confused, don’t make things worse by talking.