I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

I want my name to mean me.

I find people confusing.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

I don't think anything predated Christians.

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.