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

The time has come for professional jurors.

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

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

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.

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