The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

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.

She’d felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes.

But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

Until we choose to deal with our yesterday today, we're never going to step into tomorrow.

People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.

Bugs have always loved me.