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.

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

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

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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.

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

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.