25 Quotes by Dominick Dunne

I've always felt I was shortchanged in the departments of height and physique.

They are left out there with egg on their face.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don’t think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

What am I going to say to my mother tomorrow?” she asked. “Take this in your mouth while you’re thinking about it,” he answered, pushing her head down on him.

He knew the kind of people who said “We’ll send our plane” when they invited him for weekends in distant places.

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.