I don't need a reason to be happy with who I am.

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

I never want to repeat myself—each project should have its own identity.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I don't want to be a hero. I want to be a human.