...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.

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

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

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.