Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.