You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The arithmetic of L-functions is a window into the soul of number theory.

I believe in the power of cinema to change the world.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.