When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

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.

She glanced at me brieflyI looked at her longingly, so she believed Finally relieved.

There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing.

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

Obamaism is the future of America.

I've been known to preach.

Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.