 I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. |
| There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. |
| Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. |
| My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. Topics: Funny |
| 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 of the container. |
| The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. |
| I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. |
| More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. |
| When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression. |
| The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. |
| There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. Topics: Age |
| I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth. |
