Rene Balcer quotes:

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Justice is a jagged road.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

The more I know, the less I sleep.