As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.