Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

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.

Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clohes

Be and Do what it takes to Have superb results. Nurture a mindset that works for you, rather than against you. Your inner thoughts determine your outer world.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.

Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.