I have no problem with people feeling a bit down – crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma – but I do have a problem with whining about it. Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
Let me start with a confession: I don’t enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I’m a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife’s cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning. Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes. Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it’s a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they’ll all think, ‘Gosh I wish I was him.’ Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness. Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
In my experience, there is a very good reason why a good-looking young woman of around 20 is willing to go out with a man over 15 years her senior – she’s nuts. Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing. Mark Barrowcliffe Read Quote
