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.

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.

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.

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.

...when 'empowering women' becomes 'overpowering women' not only is it the polar opposite of feminism

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.