My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

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 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.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.