Hudson river Quote by Gay Talese

“The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.”

— Gay Talese

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

— Gay Talese

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about…

— Gay Talese

“in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an “economic interest” in the continued role of women as “the provider of children for the…

— Gay Talese

“Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: “We have to lose our minds and…

— Gay Talese

“An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,”…

— Gay Talese

Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be…

— Gay Talese

“Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where…

— Gay Talese

“While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified…

— Gay Talese

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people

— Gay Talese

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

— Gay Talese

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details…

— Gay Talese