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

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.

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.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

Michele Bachmann said that if she is elected president, she would consider eliminating the Department of Education because "the states could do a gooder job.

I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!