"All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing."

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

“In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.”

“The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.”

“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”

“To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.”

“Sometimes in common relationships,i ts hard to break the Ice,so just look hot and you'll melt it”

“At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.”

“We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.”