Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

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

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.

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

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.