Prose divides shame into stations.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

We have to renegotiate our trade deals.

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.