You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

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.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.