Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.
Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.
I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that.
There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions. ' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.
The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.