Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Gymnastics is what I do, not who I am.

I don't have to be perfect. I just have to try my best.

Collaboration in mathematics can lead to discoveries that no single mind could achieve alone.

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.