Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be. - Kate Atkinson

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

"Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard."