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.

I am a fan of Botox.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.