Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.

Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.

It feels good when the one you owe walks with you. It feels ecstatic when the one you don't owe walks.

The world is with you.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.