I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that..
What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?.
I don't take too many things too seriously..
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects..
... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards..
I just love to compete.
I've been called worse by better..
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global..
Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything..
90% of success is failure..
Relationships are now off-kilter..
I have to chose my words carefully..
I'm not a queen of anything, you know..
I've never been baptised..
I am one of the haunted..
I don't really take myself very seriously..
Live constructively and live optimistically..
A text is evolutionary by its very nature..
By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!.
All problems in mathematics are psychological..
Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom..