In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!