If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness

I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.