Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
– Gay Talese
He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.
– Gay Talese
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.
– Gay Talese
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
– Gay Talese
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
– Gay Talese
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.