The time has come for professional jurors.

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.

If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.

No act of kindness deserves a debt in return.

Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.