A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Modern morality is all about perception.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.