To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

It's pronounced 'Romaine,' like the lettuce.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.