I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

Do every act of your life as if it were your ultimate.

He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

I've had my highs and had my lows but you can't tell me that I am not the baddest chick.

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.