Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.