“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”

“Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.”

“Most rapes of men occur in prison. But even outside of prison, about 9 percent of reported rapes are against men (probably mostly by men, but no one knows for sure). Even rape outside of prison, then, is about as significant an issue for men as AIDS is for women—about 10 percent of the people dying of AIDS are women. Do we hear more about men being raped or about women getting AIDS?”

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

“Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.”

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”