He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.

Nobody can convince me that if she were a white male that all of these things would be in the public view.

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good [...]. They love each other because it's easy. Or because they're used to it. Or because they've given up. Or because they're scared.

And I told you to bring nine toys, she said. you bought eight. Next time try to pay more attention. And the disappointment in her voice made him cry even harder, so hard that he couldn't talk and thus he couldn't tell her that he put eight toys in the wagon because the ninth toy was the wagon itself.