Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematicians finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

There’s no sex in your violence.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I’d think “no, actually I’m a giraffe”.