The English Kill Their Meat

I Left School At 16 And Skipped University To Work, Initially As A Waiter. I Think I Missed Out On What Would Have Been Great Years.

You Don't Like It When A French Housewife Gets Mad At You. If She Gets Steam Behind Her, She Is An Unstoppable Creature.

Day After Day We Looked For Rain, And Day After Day We Saw Nothing But The Sun. Lavender That We Had Planted In The Spring Died. The Patch Of Grass In Front Of The House Abandoned Its Ambitions To Become A Lawn And Turned Into The Dirty Yellow Of Poor Straw. The Earth Shrank, Revealing Its Knuckles And Bones, Rocks And Roots That Had Been Invisible Before.

No Matter What Their Background, The Southern French Are Fascinated By Food.

I'd Rather Live Precariously In My Own Office Than Comfortably In Somebody Else's.