Norton Juster Quotes

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

If you weren’t there, how do you know someone pushed her?” Sergeant Kenn asked. “Well …,” said Jared. “And what were you doing, running through a strange town at night?” “I was jogging?” Jared offered. “Without your shirt or your shoes?” “Uh,” said Jared.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.

When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

I love 'Robot Chicken,' 'The Boondocks' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' Then there's this show called 'The First 48.' It's a documentary about killings where they try and find murderers. They interrogate people and they tell on each other - it's hilarious.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.