Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.
He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.
She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight.
Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.
People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.
Throwing himself a party was like rubbing his nose in his failure to connect with people.
Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.
Good prose is solitary work.
The only truth left is my drunkenness, my sex, and my art.
The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.
The orgy room at Dave's Baths was democracy made flesh; race and social standing were checked at the door along with clothes.
It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless.
I hate hating myself. It's boring. But there's nobody else to hate.
But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world.
A writer’s unconscious is difficult to read, but the imagination is rooted in the unconscious.
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