Your rising from bed every morning will give fear its chance to grow stronger just as it will afford faith its chance to blossom. You will make the choice to react to one or create the other.

Literature is a memory, a look back at the past.

I don't believe in regrets. Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

The arithmetic of L-functions is a window into the soul of number theory.

The function of the writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

我不是为纪录而战，而是因为热爱这项运动。