Civil servants take forever to do anything.
Joseph Wambaugh

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Joseph Wambaugh

The time has come for professional jurors.
Joseph Wambaugh

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

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
Joseph Wambaugh

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.
Joseph Wambaugh

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
Joseph Wambaugh

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Joseph Wambaugh