The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Hell is other people.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.