Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.