The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

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 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.

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

We understand more than we know.

Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

I'm gonna do a great job for America.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.

When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.