This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.