Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.