Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
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.
Roza didn’t want to go, and she made the woman promise to let her ride the horse again. It was apparently called Russia because it was very big, a complete liability, and always going where it wasn’t...
Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemie...
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable re...
All their lovers' talk began with the phrase After the war.After the war, when we're married, shall we live in Italy? There are nice places. My father thinks I wouldn't like it, but I would. As long a...
[...] she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.
The general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any ev...
Entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself
The dead can read tears.
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is...
How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world
The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.
Money has no religion except itself.
He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupt...
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
Visiem zināms, ka ģimenes gods ir atkarīgs no tās sieviešu uzvedības.
Psipsina emerged from inside the tunic, and jumped up on the table in order to curl up inside the cap, which had been her favourite resting place ever since she discovered the joys of contortionism; s...
Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey.
Thus the headstrong German Shepherd dog, Fritz, and Moritz, the Barbaryy ape, innocently and gallantly defending his mate, plunge Greece into a political void.