“Inside an old man is always a young man, a young man shaped by his friends.”

“There is a certain type of person who just won't be happy unless she lives in New York at least once in her life.”

“Sometimes, despite everything, enchantment still revealed itself slyly through cracks in the everyday.”

“Thus angel embodies neatly the idea that "the muscular body functions as a powerful symbol of desire and lack." Angel is manly but not a man, and his display of masculinity points to the ambivalences that surround gender.”

“There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.”

“...the new man cannot exist without the old monster masculinity. All the new men are aware of how masculinity is constructed and therefore how they differ from its traditional form...new men do not have to "lack" the attributes of real men, and therefore make them more appealing to viewers, but it also closes down some of their potential for a revisioning of masculinity.”

“A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.”