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

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

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

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

The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear..

Thoughts are odd misfires..

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

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

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there..

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal..

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

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..

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the roa….