The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
John LanchesterIt's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
John LanchesterSomebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.
John Lanchester