The Law Offices of W. Sterling Routson-Thomas

"He sees you when you're sleeping / He knows when you're awake / He knows if you've been bad or good / So be good for goodness sake!""Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"

"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"- Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."- William Lyon Phelps

"The contract specified an appendage for a missed payment. Read the fine print: the head is an appendage."-Executioners Swing, Magic: the Gathering

"One sure mark of a fool is to dismiss anything that falls outside his experience as being impossible."-Farengar Secret-Fire, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house. Jorg Ancarth, Prince of Thorns, Mark Lawrence

"A straw man argument is one based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To 'set up a straw man' or 'set up a straw man argument' is to describe a position that superficially resembles an opponent's actual view but is easier to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent." Wikipedia

The weakest spot in a good defence is designed to fail. It falls, but in falling it summons the next defence and so on. It’s all about layers. At the end of it all you’ll find yourself facing the thing you sought to avoid all along, only now you’re weaker, and it’s forewarned. Jorg Ancarth, Prince of Thorns, Mark Lawrence

"I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never get away unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone." F. Lee Bailey

"Like many people with no actual morals, Lord Downey did have standards, and Teatime repelled him." Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

"It reminds me of the time my dog actually caught a squirrel, after all those years of trying...He looked sad. Like he'd ruined something for himself."Jon Stewart, the Daily Show

"My Legions of Terror will be an equal-opportunity employer. Conversely, when it is prophesied that no man can defeat me, I will keep in mind the increasing number of non-traditional gender roles."-Evil Overlord List

"I sometimes fancy myself an evil that exists to oppose other evils . . . On that day when the world is completely cleansed of evil, then I, too, will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Perhaps even sooner than that, I now judge. But whatever . . . Until that time, I shall not wash my hands nor let them hang useless." Corwin, The Guns of Avalon