I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

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.

have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.