The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
The power of mathematics lies in its generality and abstraction.
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.
To write is to resist the noise of the world.
I don't have to be anything other than what I am.
So, I went through life constantly practicing this model of disciplinary approach. Well, I can’t tell you what that’s done for me. It’s made life more fun. It’s made me more constructive. It’s made me more helpful to others. It’s made me enormously rich.