“You spoke with (one Goldman Sachs employee) and told him to say nothing and listen to your version of the story. You then told him you would be interested in calling Goldman Sachs witnesses to make sure they were in agreement with your story.”
“[And when Peterson's mistress, Amber Frey, came forward to assist police, it was] huge, ... In the early days, the information she had gave us some direction. ... Amber never went sideways on this once. We couldn't have asked for a better witness.”
“I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.”
“There is plenty of historical evidence to show courts are more than willing to believe the police over a black defendant. It is not the stuff of fiction; there is almost a presumption when dealing with police witnesses, that they must be telling the truth, and it makes the work of defending criminal defendants harder.”
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
All things want to float as light as air through the world witnessing all that is. I am a mote of dust floating freely in the firmament, a person who merely is, and I feel full of joy for all worldly treasures, the immaculate gift of life.
“Essentially the more we pollute the atmosphere, the more we can expect these [negative] effects to occur. We are beginning to see points, such as melting of the Greenland ice sheet, that if we don't do anything about it, we will be witnessing potentially irreversible changes.”
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
The specialty in all life is expecting the exception, while ignorant of real acceptance, until unexpectedly you re-witness your own ignorance to 'be' the cause that awakens others. One does not do this yesterday, or today. You do this with expressing honesty everyday.