You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.