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- Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated…
- If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.…
- In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of…
- Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you…
- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems…
- Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do…
- The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a…
- For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
- Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all…
- The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than…
- I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of…
- Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new…
- Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in…
- I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and…
- To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in…
- So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me…
- And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly…
- The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have…
- That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
- When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach