"Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs."

“If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.”

Source : "Bones Inspiration Kathy Reichs Writes Episode 5.20 The Witch in the Wardrobe". Interview with Alan Orange, tvweb.com. May 4, 2010.

“Let me introduce you to Jesus.”

“The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.”

“Each of us is born with a history already in place”

“What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.”

“Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest...it's about who came, and never left your side.”

“I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.”

“I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me... because so much of how I access character is through my body.”