Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.

We are the guardians of our beings.

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I've done and sometimes I don't, and I'm sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

Life is a dead-end street.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright