One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

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

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

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.