Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

That’s true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.

Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.

If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.