A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

That’s true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.

Faith is a fortitude.

You do not know what is better before you have tried what is worse.

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

I consider everything I compose a gift.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.