Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

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.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

Success is in the big things.Happiness is in the small things.Meditation is in Nothing.And, God is in everything

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

I want people to realize their life's dreams and passions.

Some people should never meet.