There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.