Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation...
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another....
In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male vindictiveness of...
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.