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

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

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.

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

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

The dodgerest of all the dodgers.