I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

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

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.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.