This was one of the most important components of homicide investigation. Take the facts and shake them down into hypothesis. #lc

Hold fast. It's like when they were out there in those boats, and the waves got huge, you just had to grab on and hold fast. #cob

I know there is a mission that gives me my direction and meaning. It will always be there to guide me to the right path. #wsog

There are no coincidences. #wsog

I believe that war brings out the true character in a person, good or bad. #bb

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

I learn so much about people in my job. Sometimes I think I don't even have a life. I only have their life... #lc

Hollywood is a place of takers and users, of broken sidewalks and dreams. #ll

New Year's Eve is a night for jazz, and the saxophone can cut you in half if you are alone. #bi

I read about people I had never known. Names that were taken away from them along with everything else they'd had or would ever have. #tc

What I have are just parts of the whole. What I need is the glue that will correctly hold them together. #bi

I've been sad before. But I've found comfort in it. #lc

People lie, the president lies, corporations lie... The world is ugly and not many people are willing to stand up to it anymore. #tkot

Twin skyrockets were going off inside me. One left a trail of red, the other green. They were going different ways. One led to the heart's dark abyss. The other led to bright, blessed days and dark, sacred nights. I could choose one path but not both. #ll

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

It seems to me that every gleaming success in the city has a dark seam to it somewhere, usually just out of view. #br

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

Kids are amazing, as long as they have the push in the right direction at home. #wsog

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

I think of my city as some kind of vast drain that pulls all bad things toward a spot where they swirl around in a deep concentration. #tm

The point is, I need the gun. I need the badge. Otherwise I'm out of balance. I need all of this. Okay? #tc

Your salvation is in the truth. Now more than ever. I can't help you without the truth. #dmtn

We don't have time. We lose momentum and we lose the case. #bv

Every task force has an acronym. To the public, acronyms mean action, large numbers of manpower applied to vital problems. #be

You want to be a good detective, go out and knock on doors. #br

Somebody could die in the time it took you to get all that out. #be

I carried a gun for so long that when I no longer had it on me it threw me off my balance. I was uneven. #tc

I am used to chasing killers motivated by greed or lust or any one of the big seven sins. Religious extremism isn't often on the list. #to

I cannot be surprised anymore by horrors people inflict on each other. But the horrors people save for themselves are a different story. #af

Things change. You just have to hold fast. #boschtv

In love and in loss the night is always sacred. #ll

After all my years working cases I am sure of one thing. There is no easy way to die. #9d

I don't read People magazine. I might not recognize a celebrity if they came up and bit me. #tm

In the places I have grown up I never got any food that was pink in the middle and I can't start enjoying it now. #steak #tn

It has been my experience that when you look back at a life, you use a magnifying glass. Everything is bigger, magnified. #wsog

Twin skyrockets were going off inside me. They were going different ways. One anger, one warmth. One led to the heart's dark abyss. The other led to Paradise Road. It led to the place where lost light came from. My lost light. I could choose one path but not both. #ll

Child cases left you knowing the world was full of lost light. #cob

The sound of applause is the same as the buzz of a bullet spinning past your ear in the dark. That randomness. That is L.A. #bi

I firmly believe and it has been my repeated experience that the answers to most cases are hidden in the details. #br

Something about being told to go home made me not go home. #ep

I have always been suspicious of science and technology. This puts me on the outside looking in, an analog man in a digital world, but my instincts have always served me well. For every great technological advancement, there are always people out there looking to misuse it. #rw

It was about taking that dark thing that you knew was out there in the world and bringing it inside. Making it yours. #tr

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses. #bv

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

Just as experience had taught me about sleep and the ability to go long stretches without it, I knew the details were important. #tn

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

Las Vegas shares a kinship with Los Angeles; both are places desperate people ran to. #tm

I have faith and I have a mission. Call it blue religion, call it whatever you like. It's the belief that this won't just go by. #cob

On a day like this who wouldn't want to live, no matter what? #boschtv

Who polices the police who police the police? #tm