We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.
I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
Poetry is frosted fire.
Believe it or not, one of my favorite songs is 'La Marseillaise'. I'll watch Casablanca just to hear it. It is enough to get me off my ass and want to jump on a horse and yell, "Charge!"
I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.
If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge.