I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

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

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.

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

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.

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