Say something worth the words.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home