For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.