Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

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), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?