“Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.”

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.

People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.

There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.

I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.

One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.

I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

People don’t hurt what they love.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.

So the idea of being able to shop cross-category to buy the beach bag, the summer lip gloss, and the pillows for your pool house makes it into very focused, easy life.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

You taste something from St. George, even across categories – the gin, the whisky – it tastes like something from St. George. It’s the same as going to a great bar:

Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.

What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.

People who can’t stay tidy can be categorized into just three types: ‘the can’t throw it away type’, ‘the can’t put it back type’, and ‘the first-two-combined’ type.