I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness…. – Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so. – Robertson Davies, "Of the Conservation of Youth," The Table Talk of Samu
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. – Bob Wells
