I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

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.

Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy – acceptance.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.