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.

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

We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.

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!

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

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.