I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

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.

Every life has a sound

hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

I love different folks.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

And the new day was a great big fish.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.