 Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. |
| The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. |
| 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 O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to. |
| The time has come for professional jurors. |
| As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people. |
| What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. |
| 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. |
| I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating. |
| You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it. |
| The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. |
| I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while. |
| 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. |
| Civil servants take forever to do anything. |
| I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. |
| Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. |
| When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. |
| Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. |
| The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer. |
