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.
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.
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it’s a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
Privileged people don’t march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
You burn a man’s pickup, and he’s ready for war.
I didn’t dare think of the future; the past was still happening.
It’s as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
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.
The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best – talking about other lawyers.
I am currently reading, “The Broker” by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better.
In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I’m sleeping.
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
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.
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.
Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.