As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

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.

The spirit of divinity is the spirit of being.

I'm going to own your body, Lila, because you f*cking own mine.

Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

Don't drink too much." "When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop." "I'll have to get a shorter name." "I'll have to forget how to spell it.

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same