The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

My work is proof of self-obliteration.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

A mathematical proof is not just a verification but a story that reveals deeper truths.

The only way out is in.