The deepest problems in mathematics often arise from the simplest questions.

A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.

"Reading is time travel, and books are the vehicles."

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

The soul is the living bridge between the spirit and the body.