“Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make man...” — A. A. Gill Quote

Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it smell better, but the idea that has pushed our lives into the light more than any other -ism or -ology is feminism.

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals, delays, indecisions, tomorrows and long lunches.

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

If you're bored, it's because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It's the most interesting thing you'll ever do.

I packed my bags and went back to California and actually put wrestling behind me. I actually thought, well you know what, I thought it was crazy I made it once and to think I'm going to come back or whatever was unrealistic goal. So I went back to bodyguarding and substitute teaching.

I recycle and try to reuse bags in shops but, like most people, I don't do as well as I could.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.