As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.