The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

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

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.

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

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

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!