The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

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

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

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.