Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever.

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.