As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you. - John Fowles

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.