I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

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

The time has come for professional jurors.

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

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

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

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