We feel free when we escape ,even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
One has to pay dearly for immortality；one has to die several times while still alive.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
Music is the best medicine for the soul.
The arithmetic of L-functions is a window into the soul of number theory.
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.