The money for the statue of liberty came from fundraising from auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches in europe and the u.s. The statue cost the french about $250,000, which today would be over $5.5 million dollars.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.