“Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language.”

Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts.

The science of meteorology is still comparatively new and supplies us only with a few decades of records on which to base our conclusions.

If the relationship sought proves to be real, the rings in the trunks of trees give us not only a means of studying climatic changes through long periods of years, but perhaps also of tracing changes in solar activity during the same time.

Money alone can’t bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won’t say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I’ve had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

Who isn’t fascinated by evil?

I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.