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.

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

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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

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

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

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

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

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

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.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The French complain of everything, and always.

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.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

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

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

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

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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.

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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

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

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

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?

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.

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‘.

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