"MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable."

“No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”

“Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.”

“It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.”

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”

“Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.”

“I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.”

“I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.”

“Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.”