The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.

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.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

I am I plus my circumstances.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.