"My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it."

“The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.”

“Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.”

Source : Wendy Kaminer (2000). “Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety”, Vintage

“When people ask me what my religion is, I say its the Arsenal.”

Source : "'I'm not very fast at my times tables'". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

“Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.”

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”

“I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.”

“...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know”

“Im more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.”