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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think.

The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we’ve both looked at each of them together.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I'm an artist at heart.

Behind every good woman lies a trail of men.