I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

I want my name to mean me.

I find people confusing.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

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

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

Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth.

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.