There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful. — William Landay Attractive Copy Share Image
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. — William Landay Conflict Copy Share Image
“A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it.” — William Landay Good marriage Copy Share Image
“We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.” — William Landay Animals Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.” — William Landay Last resort Copy Share Image
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. — William Landay Adults Copy Share Image
“We’re not arguing. We’re discussing.” “You’re a lawyer; you don’t know the difference. I’m arguing.” — William Landay Arguing Copy Share Image
“Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.” — William Landay Error Rate Copy Share Image
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. — William Landay Book Copy Share Image
“I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-” — William Landay Possessing Copy Share Image
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. — William Landay Art Copy Share Image
“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount… — William Landay Accusation Copy Share Image
“defendant … snap. “So what was that trigger? What was it that converted a fantasy of murder into the real thing?” He paused. It… — William Landay Murder Copy Share Image
“It was as if there was a place called After, and if I could just push my family across to that shore,… — William Landay Family Copy Share Image
“Grand juries serve for months, and they figure out pretty quickly what the gig is all about: accuse, point your finger, name… — William Landay Accuse Copy Share Image
“narcissistic personality disorder. This is the one you probably know something about. Its primary characteristics are grandiosity and lack of empathy.” — William Landay Characteristics Copy Share Image
“There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea -- the act does not create guilt unless the… — William Landay Guilt Copy Share Image
“Witness: I thought it was a mistake. Based on what we knew at the time, it was a mistake to turn away… — William Landay Failure Copy Share Image
“…I never expected to lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player… — William Landay Ball player Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“Every father knows the disconcerting when you see your child as a weird, distorted double of yourself. It is as if for… — William Landay Children Copy Share Image
But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what… — William Landay Accepting Copy Share Image
“In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really… — William Landay Big day Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try… — William Landay Assistants Copy Share Image
“With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming -- a fraction of a second, that's all --… — William Landay Death Copy Share Image
“My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big… — William Landay Children Copy Share Image
“They were chosen for their perfect ignorance of these things. That is how the system works. In the end, the lawyers and… — William Landay Amateurs Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth.… — William Landay Jury Copy Share Image
“The leopard in the zoo wanders to the edge of his pen and, through the bars or across an unjumpable moat, he… — William Landay Leopard Copy Share Image
“stupid things. The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever; this was just a case of… — William Landay God knows Copy Share Image
You know, being confident isn't the same as being right. — William Landay Be confident Copy Share Image
“But things were racing too fast to linger over the past or future. There was only now.” — William Landay Past future Copy Share Image
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. — William Landay Clever Copy Share Image
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. — William Landay Crime Copy Share Image
“Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,” — William Landay Blind Copy Share Image
