Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

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

I don't take advances for my books.

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

I think people should be consumers of journalism.