The world may be cruel, but it is also beautiful.
The writer must be four people: the nut, the obsessor, the stylist, and the critic.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I'm not here to be liked, I'm here to be loved.