The Langlands program is not a theory but a web of conjectures and theorems that, if fully established, would unite number theory and representation theory.

"In the silence of the night, the writer finds the loudest voices."

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."

I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.