South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.