Best Quotes by Gay Talese (Top 5)

  1. The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
  2. Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.
  3. The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
  4. He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.
  5. I am a documentarian of what I do.