Quotes About Author

In a place like South Florida, such heart-bound faith in the justice system could best be described as quaint.

Buck stared incredulously. "This is the first time you ever fired a gun? And you live in Florida?

Wiley's behavior had lately become so odd that younger reporters who once sought his counsel were now fearful of his ravings, and they avoided him.

Quit being an asshole, Nicky. You weren't in the medical care business, you were in the stealing business.

Cab Mulcahy poured the coffee. Skip Wiley drank.

Jerry Crosby didn't live on the island. He lived miles away on the mainland, in a western municipality that grandly called itself Royal Palm Beach.

The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.

I wouldn't trust the guy alone with my bowling ball, that's what a horndog he is.

cell phone the night he died. She'd obtained this key information

also want you to go to an internist. Courtney says the mental degeneration has occurred so rapidly that it could be pathological. A tumor or something.

all the way back to the marina the three of them sat on the luggage to keep the dead midget inside.

had begun to drizzle, so they relocated to a latticed gazebo used for waterfront weddings and the occasional renegade bris.

Malcolm J. Moldowsky did not hesitate to address United States Congressman Dave Dilbeck as 'a card-carrying shithead.

Wiley wrote a daily column for the Sun and probably was the best-known journalist in Miami.

by Monroe County Sheriff Sonny Summers said

I never met a survivalist. How do you get a job like that anyway?' She smiled wanly. 'First you need a TV show.

and a surly young burglar (handcuffed to his chair) who'd been bitten by a police dog in a very sensitive area of his body.

private investigator. Which he actually was. So the turtle-eyed sergeant ignored him.

As he was pulled underwater for the final time, terror gave way to abject humiliation: he was being fucked to death by a damn fish.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. They have certainly committed no crimes. I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison?

Demon" means "knowledge" in Greek. "Science" means "knowledge" in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.