We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

I am not now That which I have been.

In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.