“We are fossils in the making.”

“He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.”

“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.”

“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”

“Language is fossil Poetry.”

“Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.”