If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside.”~ Grace Madison, PhD.

I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type."~ Grace Madison, PhD.

Qualia is an experiential state of the conscious mind.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.