But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.