Patricia Cornwell

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

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

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.