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

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

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

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

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

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.