Most Folks Here Got Rules 'bout Trespassing.

Because Life Doesn't Work That Way. You Can Do Everything Perfectly. Do Everything You Think You're Supposed To Be Doing. Fulfill Every Expectation That Other People May Have. And You Still Won't Get The Results You Think You Deserve. Life Is Crazy And Maddening And Often Makes No Sense.

As A Lawyer, As A Private Citizen, You See A Lot Of Injustice. You See A Lot Of People Who Should Have Been Punished And Are Not, And People Who Were Punished Wrongfully Are Not Vindicated. Fiction Is Sort Of A Way To Set The Record Straight, And Let People At Least Believe That Justice Can Be Achieved And The Right Outcomes Can Occur.

It's My Experience That Most Folk Who Ride Trains Could Care Less Where They're Going. For Them It's The Journey Itself And The People They Meet Along The Way. You See, At Every Stop This Train Makes, A Little Bit Of America, A Little Bit Of Your Country, Gets On And Says Hello.

The Military Is A Very Cool World To Write About. I Went Down To Ft. Benning, Ga., For Military Training, And I Learned A Lot About Soldiers And Officers And Why They Joined Up And What Their Life Has Been Like.

But If I Worried Too Much About Publishers' Expectations, I'd Probably Paralyze Myself And Not Be Able To Write Anything.