You love someone, you've got to let something go.

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

Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.

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

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.