I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know what's even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there.

Youre only as strong as your weakest link so youve got to make sure everybody in your crew is on point.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

When in doubt always choose love and gratitude.

If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.

At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.

Comets are far more than intellectual interest. These things affect us and may have even enabled usto exist.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.