"I'm so glad that I'm not a lawyer anymore," he says. "When people make fun of lawyers, I always kind of think that's kind of a shame because they're some of the most interesting thinkers out there." When you left your job as a lawyer in 1995, it was $83,000-a-year to write a book and sell it. You didn't have a plan but decided at that point you were going to do it. He now gets thousands of letters from young people wanting to be writers.