Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.

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

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

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!

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

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