The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

The Langlands program is a framework for understanding the fundamental nature of mathematical truth.

艺术是一种思考活着意味着什么的方式。

I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever explain to myself what they mean.

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"