Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

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.

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

HOME is where the heart is, but today, the PHONE is where the Heart is!!!

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

I'm really into jeans. It's kind of more for comfort...So, like, comfort and oversized are really in for me.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.