Neil Strauss Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.”

“The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.”

“Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.”

“When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.”

“Dating is for tools.”

“Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.”

“A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.”

“You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.”

“When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.”

“When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?”