We are all Africans under the skin.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.

I'm older now but still running against the wind

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.