“This is not mathematics, it is theology.(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)”

“It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.”

“The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.”

“Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified.”

“Mathematics is the art of explanation.”

“No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming. And no subject conforms this paradoical conjuction more starkly than the origin of the universe.”

“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.”