I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman..

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are..

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while..

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it..

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself..

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to..

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river..

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again..

The time has come for professional jurors..

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional..

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showe….

Civil servants take forever to do anything..

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating..

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice..

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen..

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up..

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore..

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page ….

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued..

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down prov….