There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus.
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men’s magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
I often feel I’m a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I’m not at all.
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren’t available to the Romans.
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.
It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren’t available.
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
My mother only ever said two things. She said,‘I don’t know, dear.’And she said,’Can I get you a sandwich, honey?
I think it’s only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.