Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.