I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

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.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.

A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.