I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous with my time over the years with young writers. I've given them my email and said if you need someone to talk to, I've been through it.

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

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

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

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