I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Life is a sacred breath.

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

Yes, I have this crazy honk of a laugh.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

Hey diddle diddle, Ray Rice up the middle.

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.