Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.