Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.