My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.