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.

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

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

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.