Quotes from Kato

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.