Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

I know something about a lot of things, " she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

Masturbation is great for the right arm

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.