Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

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

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

Poverty is a great equalizer

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.