You stand out like a fart in a church.

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.