I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.
The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e. g. , by joining the Army
I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.
We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.