If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of Nature.

Give me some sugar.

You must be able to bring relevance to people

Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.”“Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.

Molding the Minds of the Future

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.