It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

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

Life is short..Live to the fullest.

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!

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

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.