“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.”

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was right. Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said that she was wrong and lots of these were from mathematicians and scientists. Here are some of the things they said: 'I'm very concerned with the general public's lack of mathematical skills. Please help by confessing your error.' -Robert Sachs, Ph.D., George Mason University ... 'I am sure you will receive many letters from high school and college students. Perhaps you should keep a few addresses for future columns.' -W. Robert Smith, Ph.D., Georgia State University... 'If all those Ph.D.'s were wrong, the country would be in very serious trouble.' -Everett Harman, Ph.D., U.S. Army Research Institute”

“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.”

“I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.”

“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.”

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.”

“I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.”

“I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.”

“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”

“I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.”