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.

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

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.

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

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.

And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will, temptation challenges them.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)