A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?

The map we made of the 3, 000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Never let shyness conquer your mind.

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.