To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.