I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

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.

For in our hope we are saved.

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.