I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

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.

Results speak for themselves while intentions often fall short of promises.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.

I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.