Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

It's the family you choose that counts.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

I call my children "My Hundred Thousand Dollar Babies Before They Were Even Born"!

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.

You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them.