“My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.”

“The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.”

“Je le voie, mais je ne le crois pas.”

“Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.”

“Cold metal walks across my forehead,spiders search for my heart.It is a light that goes out in my mouth...”

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

“authoritarian institutions, such as governments and churches, do not use language but jargon, repetitive phrases that are not supposed to have meaning but merely enforce obedience. Language has its own internalizing ethic; it is individualistic and thus threatening to any monolithic system that demands a chorus or litany.”