Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

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

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.