I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.