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

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

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

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.

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

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

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.