Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.