I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this.
. . . each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it.