He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make...

The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.

Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past’s future.

I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee...