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

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.

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.

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

The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.

Live simply that others might simply live.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

Dont shoot where it is, son. Shoot where its going to be.