The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

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.

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.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.