For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

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.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.