Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

I want to try to keep my life the same.

The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.