Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.

Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.

Being solitary isn't a disease that needs a cure.

In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.

To be able to do this, you have to have a propensity for computer science skills, which are logic, mathematics and detail.