I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

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.

My life is measured into two distinct phases . . . BC is before cellulite and AC is for after cellulite. Sad but so true!

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.