My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

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.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

I remember thinking, "My little sister is going to be something super special," because you always seemed to know what you wanted. And I'm just curious, where did that come from?

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends

I had very little involvement with 'TinTin'. Very little involvement. So I can't really elaborate on that either.

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

Conscience is the pulse of reason