We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.