The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

Fear makes you docile.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.