If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

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.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

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

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.