211 Quotes by Neil Strauss

A lot of women – not all of them, a lot of them – feel insecure about men being men.

Besides confidence and a smile, we learned, the other characteristics of an alpha male were being well-groomed, possessing a sense of humor, connecting with people, and being seen as the social center of a room.

I’ve noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.

Every word, every step, every action is irreversible. If we step in front of a moving car, if we sign a contract we haven’t read, if we betray the person we love, the best we can do is try to clean up the mess. But no matter how hard we scrub, the stain on reality will never come out. The word you just read can never be unread.

Fame won’t make you feel any better about yourself.

Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt you.

I think the existential dilemma is: We’re social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize that we’re not as inadequate as we thought we were, and when we realize that everybody else also thinks they’re inadequate, then that ache goes away and the idea that we’re not a person of value disappears to some extent.

We ran around the party asking everyone for their opinion on having wallabies as pets. Between the opener and my shirt, within a half hour we were surrounded by women.