The moment when a privy council’s (pc) decision is favoured over that of a House of Lords’ (HoL) PC: Yo buddy, you ok? HoL: Shut up. PC: Oh c’mon, I don’t get much attention very often anyway! #shortbreak002

If equity and trust has taught me one thing, it’s to never be a trustee. You can sit like a rock or work like a beaver, once it appears you’ve slacked, you’re screwed. #shortbreak001

After s14(2) SOGA 1979, I’ve never worn new underwear without washing them first. #shortbreak003

When in doubt, ask E-Law resources :) Google is the consolation prize. #shortbreak004

Wondering if the OLA 1984 was enacted to experiment whether a landlord would befriend a trespasser #shortbreak005

When we laugh after being asked if we understood the pass year exam question, even our lecturers know we’re screwed. #shortbreak006

Remember those study group gatherings where each of us argue in one author’s voice so that our perspective of the law was whole? #shortbreak007

Law is not boring. In fact, there are popcorn moments. My personal favourite is when one Supreme Court judge slams the argument of another in a highly complicated manner to not offend his/her buddy. #shortbreak008

‘Why do you read law?’ If only I could answer, ‘Why wouldn’t I read law,’ in an interview. #shortbreak009

TV is not a necessity? I. Will. Kill. You. #shortbreak010

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

Receive without pride, let go without attachment.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there or failing to get there.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

The idea behind fast food is great people want convenience.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Ive never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.