Oxblog finds what it calls "the quote of the century". "According to the wife of French President Chirac, her husband claims":

We men are like the Cro-Magnon people of prehistoric times,” he once told me. “We’re always hunting and wenching. But, at the end of the day, we always go back to our caves. For my part I need this cave to feel at ease with myself. Without it I would be as unhappy as could be.”

Now it all makes sense.