I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

I've always felt I was shortchanged in the departments of height and physique.