I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

Each failure brings you one step closer to success.