Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don't last forever. That healing is possible.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.

I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I would love to have twins. I think there's something nice about having two babies, and they're there for each other their whole entire life.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.