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

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

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

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.

It's corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

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.

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

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

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

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist