I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school..

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else..

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original..

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned..

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but some….

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other ….

Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do..

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or else….

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass ….

When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to ….

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee t….

As a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game staye….

Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though the….

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck..

That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild ….

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

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish..

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bi….

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the so….

A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravit….

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all ….