Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

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.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

It's the start that stops most people.

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.