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Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

I like practicing law.

I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.