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.

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 of the book.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

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

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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

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