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Cheapness is a great virtue.
I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.
Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.
Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.
It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.
Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.
Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.
There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.
99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.
I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
I'm a great believer that you had to do everything you've done to have got to where you are.
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.
That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.