Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

There is no problem that cannot be solved.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.