I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

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.

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

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

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

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.