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

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

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

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

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.