We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there
Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.