"An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing."

"The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake."

"Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure."

"They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut do…"

"You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?" "I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is wh…"

"Money costs too much."

"The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest t…"

"When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, ex…"

"I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves."

"Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth."