Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Everyone is doing forensics.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

The real me isn’t someone you see but someone you know.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.