Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.
Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.
Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.
Legal ethics is a misnomer. . . lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally. ". . . and. . . "The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.
Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.
All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another. . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.