The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.