I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

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.

The only way to know the answer is by asking questions. Religion tries to suppress the questions asking (curiosity) because it can threaten its own existence. The truth is out there, go ask for it!

Be thankful.Be grateful.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent

Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.