In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

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.

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.