The title of the book is "Men are Lunatics, Women are Nuts!" (Running Press, $12.95) and it's a collection of quotes, including this one from writer Rebecca West: "The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots." Does West receive any credit from compiler Ronald B. Shwartz for providing the gist of his text's punchy title? (Warning: this is one of those gender litmus-test questions.) And the correct answer is . . . no. Some other observations and comments about the differences between men and women (keep in mind all quotes are out of context) from everyone from Roseanne to Anton Chekhov: "Dames were put on this earth to weaken us, drain our energy, laugh at us when they see us naked." From "Johnny Dangerously" "Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in." English writer Katharine Whitehorn "A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares." Writer and editor Elbert Hubbard "The only alliance I would make with the Women's Liberation Movement is in bed." Activist Abbie Hoffman "Women deprived of the company of men pine, men deprived of the company of women become stupid." Russian playwright and writer Anton Chekhov "Women are the most powerful magnet in the universe. And all men are cheap metal. And we all know where north is." Broadcasting executive Larry Miller "One thing in which the sexes are equal is in thinking that they're not." Writer Franklin P. Jones "A good man doesn't happen. They have to be created by us women ... So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from the beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego." Actress and comedian Roseanne "A man has only one aim in life. A woman has three, all contradictory." French writer Benoite Groult "You always hear women say that all the best men are married or gay. Funny, but you'd never hear a man say that about women." Musician Jim Mullen "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner." Comedian Red Skelton "Men know that if a woman had to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she would probably save the infant's life, without even considering whether there were men on base." Humorist Dave Barry "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body." Comedian Elayne Boosler "Men are superior to women. For one thing, they can urinate from a speeding car." Canadian writer Will Durst ". . . best friends who haven't seen each other in a while, gal version: 'You're my oldest and closest friend. ' . . . Guy version: 'Still driving that piece of [crap] ?' They mean exactly the same thing." Comedian Rob Becker "A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's a man only as long as he can." Comedian Jackie "Moms" Mabley