I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

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.

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

Smile more to attract more.

When the tea is brought at five o'clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyesIs suddenly purring there.

The quietness here had an agreement with dust

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

You’re meant for me, and I will have you.

A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.

We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.