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

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 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.

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

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

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.