Like most American boys of my age I read a lot of Ian Fleming.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Nine years of age, Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were entered to the National Boys Championship, and we could not get into the tournament.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.