Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

I want my name to mean me.

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

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

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

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.