The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

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.

Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.