Never Believe A Rumour Until You Hear

The Law Seems Like A Sort Of Maze Through Which A Client Must Be Led To Safety, A Collection Of Reefs, Rocks, And Underwater Hazards Through Which He Or She Must Be Piloted.

Never Shake Hands With Colleagues In Court; The Customers Think You're Making Deals.

I'd Been Told Of All The Things You're Meant To Feel When Your Father Dies. Sudden Freedom, Growing Up, The End Of Dependence, The Step Into The Sunlight When No One Is Taller Than You And You're In No One's Shadow. I Know What I Felt. Lonely.

The People Look Forbidding, Solemn, Marked By That Impossible Ideal, Communism, Which, Like Christianity, Seemed To Demand Too Much Of Humanity And, Falling Into The Wrong Hands, Led Too Easily To Horrible Brutality.

The Point At Which Beliefs Meet May Be More Significant, More Useful To Contemplate, Than Their Sources.