For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.