It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.