I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
The past is always present in the work.
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to think every morning, 'What can be done better?'
Sometimes the most profound mathematics comes from playing with simple ideas until they reveal their hidden complexity.