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

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.

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.

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.

That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers