It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before..

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks..

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back..

People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyon….

I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins….

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

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 ca….

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans….

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to..

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience..

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. ….

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 return. They will be your frien….

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes..

But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to s….

My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?.

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his….

I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full o….

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to rem….

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….

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.

I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark ….