Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.

When you put sixty ruggers and their friends and lovers in a bar, you've really got something going.

The brochures basically told the same story Stan had given me: Pacific Properties owned a gagillion places that generated a gagillion dollars. The implication was that if you didn't invest you just didn't care about making easy money with no risk whatsoever to your original investment.

He made his reputation as a legal eagle as a prosecutor before entering private practice.