Joseph Wambaugh

You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.

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

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.