Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

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.

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.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

True ninjas are always outnumbered, because they are individuals.

Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.

She was so alone. Dead to the world. No one to love. No one who loved her.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I smoke occasionally, but it's not a part of my routine. I mean, I don't need it.

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.