Bryant

“Bodies were piling up too fast in some places for medical examiners and coroners to keep up. Morgues were filled to capacity, and corpses had to be stored for days in rented refrigerated tractor-trailers until space became available. Many of the dead were not autopsied. It is standard procedure in a drug-overdose case to conduct an autopsy. But even if medical examiners had had time to autopsy every victim, some stopped themselves from doing so. Professional groups that accredit medical examiners set a limit on the number of autopsies that a doctor can competently perform in a year, and examiners in areas with large numbers of overdose deaths would have exceeded that number and risked losing their accreditation. As a result, when overdose victims were discovered near hypodermic needles or pill bottles, they went straight to their graves, unexamined.”
― Barry Meier, Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

“With his bushy mustache and caterpillar eyebrows, Buckner was a dead-ringer for Harry Reems, the porn actor who’d just been convicted in Tennessee in April for conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines, thanks to his appearance in 1972’s massively popular Deep Throat; and just like Reems, Buckner felt he was being prevented from making full professional use of his stick.”
― Dan Epstein, Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76

“Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.”
― John Grisham, Rogue Lawyer

“As former physicist Al Slawsky put it in the early 1990s, “It was a bad year for value investing. In my former life, there was never a ‘bad year’ for gravity.”
― Richard R. Lindsey, How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite