Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.