“If people aren’t equal, where would you fit in?”

“Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?”

“What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.”

“To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things. If you could manage to do both equally well, living would be a lot simpler (from Honey Pie)”

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”

“After you pass a certain age, things you were able to do easily aren’t so easy anymore — just as a fastball pitcher’s speed starts to slip away with time. Of course, it’s possible for people as they mature to make up for a decline in natural talent. Like when a fastball pitcher transforms himself into a cleverer pitcher who relies on changeups. But there is a limit. And there definitely is a sense of loss.”

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”