An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is complet...ely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always fo...und moralizing intolerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it's ...unimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitut...ion testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such... times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spo...ntaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration). Lovemaking cannot be totally classical unless it is also totally baroque, since you cannot abandon all restraints and so attain a classical intensity. In practice, however, most people are more inclined to one mode than to the other. A very classical person will be incompatible with a very baroque person unless each can bring out the other's latent opposite side. Two people who are very one-sided in the same direction can be extremely compatible but risk missing a whole dimension of experience unless they get so deeply into one mode that it becomes the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »