How does a sculptor turn a block of granite into a beautiful statue of a woman? He just chips away everything that isn't the woman. #tm

Sometimes I believe that I take things just right and everybody else doesn't take them seriously enough. Everybody has an outside gig. #be

If I've been an asshole, I'm sorry. It's the way I am sometimes. But I need you guys and you guys need me. #bi

The thing about this is I care. #bi

When you have more to look back at than forward to, you start thinking about the things you've done. #cob

The homicide squad isn't a job. It is a mission. #cb

I never understood why armored trucks are so obvious, practically announcing 'here is the money' wherever they go. #br

Guilt washed around me like the waves hitting the pylons under the pier. #ll

I want to keep the focus small for this moment. You always start small and go big. #tkot

Hollywood is different. There are no norms. There are only deviations, aberrations. #bi

I have been like a cork floating in a great wide ocean. Bouncing with the currents, not in control of anything. But now I have an idea. #tm

Every defense lawyer in every courthouse says the same thing every day of the week. Every client is innocent. #tcr

Lawyers argue over interpretations and theories and procedures. Nothing seems to move in a straight line. Justice becomes a labyrinth. #tr

Partners are supposed to be there for each other. It's supposedly a lot like a marriage, but I've never been married. #lc

Time always favors the interviewer, never the suspect. You let the suspect marinate in time. It always makes him more tender. #9d

Nobody reads the manual. #boschtv

It's better knowing than not knowing. #dsn

Only after I had left Vietnam safely I acknowledged there had been a thrill to it. In looking to replace that thrill, I joined the cops. #tm

I guess sometimes we blame the only one that's left, right? #boschtv

With the advent of forensic DNA I have repeatedly seen science take over investigations. DNA is the panacea. A match turns an investigation into a one-way street, a prosecution into a slam dunk. #tnf

Bullshit is bullshit, even from cops. #boschtv

I love the city most at night. It is in this dark slipstream that I believe I move most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. #bi

There is no end of things in the heart. #ll

It has been my experience that an alibi - even a legitimate one - is seldom bulletproof. #tnf

Most of what we do is just get people to talk. It's not like the stuff on TV. It's a hundred times harder and dirtier. #lc

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. #be

I know it is about always being on the right side of things. #wsog

There are two kinds of truth: one is the unalterable bedrock of one's life and the other is bent to serve whatever purpose is at hand. #tkot

It seems like everybody is eating avocado toast lately. It looks awful to me. #tnf

Back in the day, we'd say a guy like that couldn't find shit in his mustache with a comb. #wsog

It is what it is. #boschtv

Nobody knows how they're going to react in a situation until they're in that situation. #ep

I have been looking at the unnatural cause of death for more than half a century. To say I got used to seeing the depravity people inflict upon each other would be wrong, but I have long ago stopped thinking of these explosions of violence as aberrations. #ds

We all make mistakes. Everybody. Sometimes you make a mistake and you can't make up for it. But sometimes you do. #9d

I don't believe in coincidences but I know they happen. #tnf

The first thing I noticed was that the belt of her robe was untied. The robe had fallen open to reveal the light blue nightgown beneath. #ll

Less is more, meaning the less time you spend on paperwork, the more time you have to follow the leads of the case. #tkot

There can be no greater crime against a police officer than to threaten his family. You do that, and all bets are off. #dsn

My instinct is right. The good ones all have that hollow space inside. The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. #br

Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. #be

I felt a burning in my chest and I knew it wasn't the midday martini backing up. I felt like I was closing in on something. #ll

The science of DNA is too good. A match is a match. If you want to knock it down you need something other than to attack science. #tnf

I have always subscribed to the theory that a quick verdict is a bad verdict is a stupid verdict. #cb

Whenever I see one, I get this feeling that it might be the last one left out there. The last coyote. And I guess that would bother me. #lc

The photos were of the smiling faces of young men who had dropped down into hell and come back to smile into the camera. #be

Within the limits, the possibilities are as unlimited as beyond the limits. #tm

I study dead people's rooms the way scholars study dead people's paintings at the Getty. #tm

There's a line I can't bring myself to cross. That's how it is. It's not like I haven't thought about this. #tcr

It doesn't matter what war is fought, coming back home is another battle altogether. #tcr

A detective's job is to walk down the trail of evidence, examine each piece and take it with him. #be