It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose i...n cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich wit...h irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situat...ion to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients--as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts--as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »