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

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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

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

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

The important thing is to be drunk.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.