As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.