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.

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.

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.

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.

In any situation, I choice to keep my peace.

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.