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

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

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.

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.

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

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.