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.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.