Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

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

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.