However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.