“Lookit that,” he said. “A lawyer who knows how to do something useful. That’s a miracle.”

“The Judge has not organs to know and to deal with the text of the foreign law, and therefore requires the assistance of a foreign lawyer who knows how to interpret it.”

“He jumped down, started waving his arms around while he went to squeaking and squealing in one of those languages wizards use so the rest of us will think there is something terribly strange and mystical about what they do, kind of like lawyers.”

“Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of it is always something new.”

“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”

“I had to decide [he said later] whether I would be a lawyer by profession and a revolutionary at intervals, or a revolutionary by profession and a lawyer at intervals.”

“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”

“We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?”

“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.”

““But at least you cared. At least you were ready to do something.”
“This little mess,” Auger said, “is all because of people who were ready to do something. People like me, who always know when they’re right and everyone else is wrong. Maybe what we need is a few less of us.””