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

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

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

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

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

America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?

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.