Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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.

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

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

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

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