Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Aha! So I’m not crazy.” “You are most definitely crazy,” Derek said. “But in a deranged, endearing way.

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.