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

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.

I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read something where the pages are going to move along. That's what I want. It doesn't have to be a thriller or a mystery. Just something where I get caught up in the story.

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

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?

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

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.