Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

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, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works.