When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

The biggest factor between winning and losing is the mental approach.

Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

A positive mindset, not a doomsday mentality, supports being exceptional.