Quotes by Scott Turow

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendants guilt.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything Id encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

I was willing to do it. I was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything Id encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasnt me. Im not a scholar; I didnt have a scholars attitude toward literature.

Im a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that Presumed Innocent brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think thats all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, If you are looking for justice, dont go to a courtroom. Thats just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”