It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

The only strange thing about Jackson was the tattoo on the inside of his forearm - a trident as dark as seared wood, with a single line underneath and the letters

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!

A unicorn is a donkey from the future

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.