一个人的工作不过是通过艺术的迂回,重新发现那两三个伟大而简单的形象,在这些形象面前,他的心第一次敞开了。
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
I don't want to be remembered; I want to be felt.
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
The arithmetic of L-functions is a key to unlocking the secrets of the universe.