If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

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.

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.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

I's all about finding balance in your life.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

Every heart desires a mate.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.