“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.”

“If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.”

“Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.”

“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the limp prick. The banner of the enemy’s encampment: the prick at half-mast. The symbol of the apocalypse: the atomic warhead prick which self-destructs. That was the basic inequity which could never be righted: not that the male had a wonderful added attraction called a penis, but that the female had a wonderful all-weather cunt. Neither storm nor sleet nor dark of night could faze it. It was always there, always ready. Quite terrifying, when you think about it. No wonder men hated women. No wonder they invented the myth of female inadequacy.”

“I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man’s body, although I’d appreciate it if you didn’t quote me on that.-Bobby Tom”

“Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.”

“First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.”

“What I’m expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.”

“When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.”

“Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts. ”

“Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He’s actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.-Jillian’s mother”

“I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“Intelligent men are dangerous.”