“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.”

“Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isnt a fashion its an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be passive in...”

“In the 21st century mens tits have not just rivalled but replaced womens as the touchstone of sexy in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.”

“In a spornographic age its no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissist...”

“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, man-bags or manscara. Or about men becoming girlie or gay. Its about men becoming everything. To themselves....”

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

“Then I wondered if that was what this was, like a Brokeback Mountain thing. Wed sleep in the same bed for a year, and finally wed do it, but wed never talk about it, ever, and then Ben would get ma...”

“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny — not to mention vulnerable — min...”

“Then I wondered if that was what this was, like a Brokeback Mountain thing. We’d sleep in the same bed for a year, and finally we’d do it, but we’d never talk about it, ever, and then Ben would get...”

“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”

“Women think in [Douglas] Sirks films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk the...”

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”

“No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.”

“If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.”

“The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.”