A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

Property is a nuisance.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

The HOLY of Holiness!

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

I'd like to have and adopt children. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.