I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

I wish I had more patience.

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.