And it is, almost always, exactly the wrong move, because rage is a poor strategist.

A confrontation in the heat of discovery gives your enemy warning, and time, and the chance to destroy evidence, hire lawyers, spin the story, marshal his considerable resources against you before you have marshaled yours.

I understood that, because I had spent my adult life around Judge Arthur Vance and had absorbed, without meaning to, something of how a careful mind approaches an adversary: you do not strike when you are angry.

You strike when you are ready.