"You can move through life seeing nothing..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.”

“To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.”

“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.”

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

“Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”

“Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one”

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

“Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.”