I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

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.

Hey, get a load of those two! It must be mating season or something...

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day a fresh try one more start with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.

Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

The further I get, the further I want to go

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.