The power of mathematics lies in its ability to abstract and generalize.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tips of my words.
The only thing that can make you successful is hard work.
I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.