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To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.