If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

Feathers predate birds.

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.