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.

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.

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

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.