Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

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.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.