Quotes from Andrew Mayne

Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to.

give her a quick peck, then tell her, "You'll be fine." "Never say that. That's what the doctors tell you when you're going to die.

Guilty like a chastised dog sitting in the corner, not because he knows taking food from the table is bad, but because he's done something inappropriate he doesn't understand.

We investigators often forget to look at things from an extremely paranoid point of view. If your theory of what someone would normally do isn't helping you catch the person, you have to assume they were doing something abnormal.

Put a wildlife camera in your campsite overnight and you'll be surprised and possibly frightened by the amount of nature that comes strolling and slithering through.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

The cooking oil they use sets off our olfactory senses designed to seek out foods with high fat. We're programmed to be addicted. Add in salt and the fructose in ketchup, and it's the perfect food—if you're a Neolithic caveman getting all his other nutrients by eating gallbladders and animal intestines.

Most belief systems that don't have a central text like the Koran or the Old Testament become extremely pragmatic, adopting whatever else is around if it fits. New Orleans voodoo has a lot of French Catholicism embedded in it, while Brazilian forms have incorporated some of the indigenous beliefs from there.

My gut saved me several times in the last few minutes. Now it's telling me something else. This body wasn't the only one in the lake.

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Leviticus 24:16

If I taught physicians, I think my first test would be the one I use in my own lab: "Is it clean enough that you'd lick it?" Ask yourself that about your hands the next time you leave the bathroom.

You could probably tell more from her discarded dental floss. At least I would know what she had for dinner, her dental health, and possibly the DNA of the last person she kissed.

What matters is our velocity. At this speed, the friction from hitting those air molecules so fast it's hotter than an industrial furnace.

When I was cowering in the ambulance, waiting for Joe Vik to come for me and Jillian, it was Detective Glenn who was outside trying to give us cover. Sure, I found my courage. So did Jillian . . . god, did she ever. But Glenn had it all along. He died. We lived. Would Glenn turn away and leave this man on his doorstep? This grieving man. Fuck me.

Because if it weren't a hopeless case, he wouldn't be waiting for me on my doorstep. I don't get the low-hanging fruit, the "It was the handyman with the criminal past" type of cases. I get the ones where there is no evidence. No clues. Not even a body. Just an empty place where a person used to be.

My solution was to make that a feature, not a bug.

Empire State Building observation

This man accepted his loss a long time ago, now he's just trying to make sure it's okay to put it all to rest.

If you were to ask me what's broken in this world, I'd say it's the amount of talent found in the places we ignore.

I look up to the sky as if I'm expecting Morgan Freeman to look down at me and wink, giving me his approval.