"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."

"If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets."

"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony."

"There's so few people in this town with a conscience."

"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."

"Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby."

"I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way."

"I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad."