I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

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.

Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Confident is spirit of faith

I guess not being ‘just like them’ is a crime.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.