It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

That's good. Go on, read some more.

The eyes envy the mind.