I'm Alone And Outgunned, Scared And Inexperienced,

In Little Pockets Of Conversation, Old Men Were Telling Stories Of Ancient Floods. Women Were Talking Of About How Much Rain There'd Been In Other Towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, And Manila.

I Don't Start A Novel Until I Have Lived With The Story For Awhile To The Point Of Actually Writing An Outline And After A Number Of Books I've Learned That The More Time I Spend On The Outline The Easier The Book Is To Write. And If I Cheat On The Outline I Get In Trouble With The Book.

More Than 100 People Have Been Sent To Death Row Who Were Later Exonerated Because They Weren't Guilty Or Fairly Tried. Most Criminal Defendants Do Not Get Adequate Representation Because There Are Not Enough Public Defenders To Represent Them. There Is A Lot That Is Wrong.

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.

I Was A Lawyer For 10 Years, And Several Of My Clients Had The Misfortune, Through No Fault Of My Own, Of Going To Prison. I Visited Them Occasionally.