The purpose of fiction is to take you out of your own life and make you aware of other lives.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

I don’t want my art to be comfortable. I want it to make people think.