Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he t….

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're pro….

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on….

I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would h….

Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intox….

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting c….

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally..

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind..

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your….

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a fune….

Disney world is an armpit compared to Montana..

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death..

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book..

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your ….

I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared….

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking..

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate..

Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't c….

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 ….

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage..

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head..