There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.

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.

You don't need a title to be a leader, and having a title doesn't make you one.

The struggle is beautiful.

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

You can't photograph everything.

I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.

The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.