"With any work of art, what happens is if you're open to seeing it you probably have a sensation," he tells the talk show host, "and that sensation leads to an experience and that experience is private and deals with your background, where you were born, what you've been exposed to, who you know, what your education was; and it will lead to other ways of thinking about other things."

"I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about The Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago. We are no…"

"Since an algebraic function w is defined implicitly by an equation of the form f = 0, where f is a polynomial, it is understandable that the study of such functions should be possible by algebraic met…"

"When Donald Rumsfeld, a practical imperialist if ever there was one, took over the Pentagon, he commissioned a study of how ancient empires maintained their hegemony. Might he more profitably study ho…"

"Down there it's still Summer, I suppose, whereas our sun is already gilding the mountains and the larches are turning yellow, but the colours are wonderful, like old, dark red satin. Down here in the …"