I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Education is not so important as people think.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.