Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.

Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.