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I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.