I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.