I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.