There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

Certainly, we have entered into a new age on our planet.

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.