As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.