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.

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

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.

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

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

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

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.