Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.