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

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

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

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.

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

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.