In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I always wanted to do a B&E. Not bacon and eggs. Although I could always go for bacon and eggs. I'm talking about breaking in and entering.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.