“All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.”

“The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.”

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”

“If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.”

“A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)”

“Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been!”

“Creighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff.”