A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced

It's a date, not a duty

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

It's not love if it hurts.

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

I have a dog that loves to fight. It's a border collie, and they fight low to the ground. Other dogs are terrified of my dog, because he gets low and goes for the balls.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.