Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.