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.

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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

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

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

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