352 Quotes by John Grisham

You’re thinking somebody came over here, in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane, caught Nelson in the den, whacked him in the head, dragged his body outside, tried to clean up the blood, and then ran off? Seriously?

It’s a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn’t that tell us something?

Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement.

He was still wet with sweat and the coffee did little to cool things, but he needed it because it was an old friend and starting the day without it was unthinkable.

It’s as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

I struggle with racism every day.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there’d been in other towns – Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

Murder must be punished, but murder can also be justified.