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.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

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.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

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

Everyone is doing forensics.

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

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

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

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

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

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

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

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

The greatest gift is our own eyes sense of smell and abilities to deduce.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.