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

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

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

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 wo….

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate..

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life..

My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say..

Thoughts are odd misfires..

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets.

I refuse to sit on my laurels..

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything..

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

I don't do things that are illegal..

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge.

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays..

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it..

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

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..

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..

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 ….