Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do through me?

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.