Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

ur is a shy number. ”

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do. ”

There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life. ”

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind. ”

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' ”

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. ”

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it. ”

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have. ”

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country. ”

There is an expectation that if you do sport, any sport, you should never have a life outside that. People expect you to just train, play, train. But that's not me. ”