The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

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.

Nature cannot be bribed, when the necessary conditions are not met, it does not happen

Rejection allowed me to appreciate the beauty of acceptance.

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing.

Woman of my dreams, I don’t sleep so I can’t find her

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!