I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

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.

I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.