The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.

Communism, my dear, " I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.