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

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.

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.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.

So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.