"The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations."

“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.”

Source : Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...”

“I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.”

“Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.”

“Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.”

“Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.”

“Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.”

“A lion may die of an ass's kick.”