More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try 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.

Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.

He was dead.No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.