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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

The microscopic world became my obsession.

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.