“It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.”

“He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.”

“Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.”

“Perpetual optimism is a force leveler”

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

“In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times, designed to make each other miserable."Don't believe it. We aren't designed to make each other miserable. This view holds evolution responsible for the mismatch between our evolved predispositions and the post-agricultural socioeconomic world we find ourselves in. The assertion that human beings are naturally monogamous is not just a lie; it's a lie most Western societies insist we keep telling each other.”