Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.

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.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

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