Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.