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"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."

"Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful."

"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"

"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
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"And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun."


"You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty."


"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow."


"Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed."
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