“In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid’s Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me.”

Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.

The ingenuity displayed in Euclid’s presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.

Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.

He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.