People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.
Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.
I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.
Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.
I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.
You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more he's likely to get re-elected.
I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
