I am not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful; that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.
我不是数学的英雄。我甚至没有那么成功;这就是为什么我不希望每个人都看着我。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.