A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

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.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty… Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.

The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame and the fourth for madness.

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

Those who are filled with the love of Christ do not seek to force others to do better, they inspire others to do better.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.