For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.