In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

I don't think of myself all the time.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work - not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'