There is no difference between men and women and I tried to prove that even in logic men and women are on the same level.

I was maybe a little nervous, but then again, I have a good deal of experience from other competitions so it wasn't anything serious.

Then we had six 15-minute rounds, and after each round one competitor was eliminated until three of us were left to compete in the final.

In Lucca, the media paid a lot of attention to the championship. But there was no audience, so the atmosphere was fairly quiet.

In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't understand men. He didn't even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle, with no straight edges to look for and no end in sight, but one in which there was always going to be somewhere for absolutely any piece to fit.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.