I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.