People always think they’re going to write a book. They think they’re going to write a book, and then they don’t.
In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Die Wahrheit ist oft unwahrscheinlicher als die Fiktion.
The most effective economic communities are founded on a shared ethical horizon, which includes a set of moral obligations that members of the community owe to one another.
Every great novel is a journey into the unknown, both for the writer and the reader.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
The holographic principle suggests that the information content of a region of space can be encoded on its boundary, much like a hologram.