Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

There are worse prisons than words.

If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

True life is elsewhere

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Our children are not going to be just "our children"

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.