I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

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.

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

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.

Fall several times doesn't matter, how many times you stand up matters

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Dreamers strive to live life to the fullest abilities and they fight for their dreams.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.