There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

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.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.