“I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.”

“The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”

“Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.”

“Articulation! There, by Joe, was MY absolute, if I could be said to have one. At any rate, it is the only thing I can think of about which I ever had, with any frequency at all, the feelings one usually has for one's absolutes. To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.”

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”

“Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”

“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple”