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

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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 showed to the surviving officer.

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

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

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 proved that.

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