Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'