My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking sk….

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats..

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..

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules ….

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being..

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it..

Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, ….

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and ba….

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its….

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre….

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an uninten….

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that peop….

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the ….

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way..

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnigh….

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a sing….

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, ….

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introdu….

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,….

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertine….

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting..