For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.