I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

It's my life and my death.

See you in the darkness.

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

There will always be a father.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.