No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

We know that she’s one of the most famous people to have an Erdös-Bacon number, an academic-entertainment industry designation bestowed upon the rare few who’ve published papers in the field of mathematics and are connected to Kevin Bacon by less than six degrees. (Portman’s number is five.)