Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child.

it’s more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.