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.

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.

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

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

This madman must be stopped.

I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great.

Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.