When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

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

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

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

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

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.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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

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

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

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

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

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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

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

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

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

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

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

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.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

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

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

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, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

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

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

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