Sublime

Now if you’re not “hot,” you are expected to work on it until you are.

nous en étions là : l’opinion de quelqu’un était insupportable. C’était la posture désormais. Et aussi une violation extrême, absurde, de la liberté d’expression, tout comme les politiques réputées haïssables étaient détournées en immorales.

she recommended becoming a published author to all people with drinking problems. A writer can blunder through life like Norman Mailer with his “tiny fist” striking out at cocktail parties, and all anyone will think is that he is a classical drunk writer. If he did something like that and worked at P.I.P., one of the musclebound stock boys would br

Elle n’a pas que du talent, que l’instinct consommé de l’art, elle a aussi une vraie personnalité et vous m’avez dit souvent que c’étaient les personnalités et non les talents qui remuaient leur époque.

Also because D.L. was also weird, and conspicuously so, even in an environment—a graduate writing program—where neurosis was oxygen, colorful tics arranged and worn like jewelry.

It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow. The

And then I recognized it: it was a tone reflecting the idolatry of the rich that so often accompanies the democratization of things, the flattening out.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters. —Donald Trump

I am susceptible to frivolity. I know this about myself. I love beauty; I am weak to surfaces; I am apt to mistake eccentricity for character. I drink more than I should. I love overdressing; I love staying up past midnight; I love breakfasts at all-night diners, and the Irish coffees you order when you can’t decide whether it’s night or morning.