“Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God”
“You are done for — a living dead man — not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.”
“The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.”
“It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself”
“Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom! penis vagina.”
“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”