When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

Burt Ward

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Mangnu Hirschfield

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Richard Russo

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Oswald Chambers

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

G. K. Chesterton

No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.

Proverb

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

Hugh Laurie

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

M. Night Shyamalan

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Guy Johnson

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates