England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

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.

Act to make your vision a reality.

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Heresy makes for progress.

When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.