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

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

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

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

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.