Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.