"The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the heart of man." Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Do I think that O.J. murdered those two people? Yes. Do I think he got off for it? Yes. Do I think he's the first person to get away with murder in America? No. He got the same breaks that a rich white man because he could buy them. And that's the bottom line." Todd Boyd, USC professor

"O thou Othello, thou wert once so good, Fall'n in the practice of a damned slave, What can be said of thee?" "Why, any thing; An honorable murderer, if you will; For nought I did in hate, but all in honor."

1998: OJ in Esquire interview: "Let's say I committed this crime. Even if I did do this, it would have to have been because I loved her very much, right?"

1604: Desdemona to Othello: And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then when your eyes roll so. Why I should fear, I know not, Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear. 1993: Nicole in 9-11 police recording: "When he gets this crazed, I get scared... He gets a very animalistic look in him... His eyes are black, just black, I mean cold, like an animal."