The hard-working petroleum spirit must never be abandoned. It is our family heirloom.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

To write is to confront the self.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

The Langlands program is a framework for exploring the deepest mysteries of mathematics.