I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

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.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.