Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 6, Transition And Crisis, p. 119
Context: There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".
“Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.”
The narrator talking about Ange after they are released from prison.
"Stoke Newington Blues".
The Acid House (1994)
“I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.”
Livejournal post http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/176181.html (2005)
2000s
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
“I like physics, but I love cartoons.”
“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.”
As quoted in "Why Now Is a Divine Time for Alicia Witt", by Sarah Beauchamp at Huffington Post (30 May 2014) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-beauchamp/why-alicia-witt-should-be_b_5400673.html
Context: I like digging into these characters that are a lot more complex, and there's a lot that isn't apparent on the surface … In a weird way, you can access all that fear and pain. … Nothing makes me happier than when somebody figures out I was in something, and then they'd seen me in something else, and had no idea it was the same person… Then I feel like I've done my job. … I've always loved finding characters that are not always the most likable ones when you first meet them, and finding a way to make them people that viewers will identify with, even against their better judgment.
