The beauty of mathematics is that it allows us to see the world in a way that is both precise and profound, revealing the underlying order that governs all things.

I'm not here to be liked; I'm here to be heard.

Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.

I write because I have no other way to survive.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.

The difference between good and great is the attention to detail.