Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

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 are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

You can only feel love by expressing it.