Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.