We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

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

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.