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

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.

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.

Savor the moments in life that make your heart glow. Chase after and find the moments that will take your breath away. In the end, it is only those milestones on life's journey that matter.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

What is bad for the heart is good for art.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.