... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.