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

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.

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.

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.

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it.

I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.