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

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

I'm always reading many books at a time. It might be quite unorthodox, but what I do is, since I'm always surrounded with books, I'll read a page of physics, and then I'll read a chapter of a novel that I really love, and then I'll say, "Oh well, what does that mixture do in my head?" I adore reference books. I love encyclopedias. I also like just going back to original texts, because a lot of these self-help books today.

I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

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

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.