Civil servants take forever to do anything.
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.