Richard A. Clarke Quotes

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

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.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

If George W. Bush is a reformer, I'm an astronaut!

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

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.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

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

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.