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- I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out…
- I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and…
- To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be…
- Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a…
- You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story…
- 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…
- Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and…
- I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
- I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
- Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a…
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
- Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
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