Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

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.

To reject the Word of God is to forsake the holy grace.

Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.

Dark, primitive magic. Swords Against Death.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!