The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The silence between words is where the truth hides.

Patience and persistence are the keys to unlocking the mysteries of mathematics.