[interviewed in 1981 about changes in the film industry]: The old group who started the business wanted to make pictures to get class. Today, these men all come from Harvard and already have class, so they're only interested in making enough money to serve cocaine to their guests.

The only other mathematician I know of who became a writer is Lewis Carroll. I guess he had a good ear for a joke.

[interviewed in 1982]: I think we are dealing with an audience that is almost functionally illiterate, that has grown up on television and comic books. According to a survey I read, a kid of eighteen will have seen some 30,000 hours of television. He has seen 700 movies. There's no indication as to how many books he's read, but I'd guess about one-and-a-half.