The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.

If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.

You don't have to apologize for your feelings. You can't make yourself fall in love with somebody.

Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

What goes around comes back around again.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.