"The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life."

"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance."

"My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live."

"We are suffering from too much sarcasm."

"Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

"No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic."

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."

"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind?"

"There is a history in all men's lives."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."