A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. But if you run with dogs, you will learn how to bark.

Little tube of mighty pow'r Charmer of an idle hour Object of my warm desire.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.