“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”

“You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.”

“The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.”

“When I fall Short of Words, My existence becomes speechless, searches for words passing here and there, in the hope that they may be found. When I ask someone to know about my words, it tells me the place of their mind, maybe some people are angry with me, who often do not mention me even once in their words.”

“When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.”

“Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.”

“It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?”

“Everyone was muttering about Bill Clinton's philanderings before he came to visit, but once he walked into the room none of the women - or men - could get enough of him. He rather ignored me: my hair wasn't big enough.”

“Women care about specifics, about details. Men care about generalities, about abstract principles.”

“I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men.”