For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.