“The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.”

“I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.”

“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.”

“Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.”

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”

“He must have a burning desire to solve the problem. But after he has defined the problem sees in his imagination the desired end result secured all the information and facts that he can then additional struggling fretting and worrying over it does not help but seems to hinder the solution.”