Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
There is no friendship in trade.
I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.
I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want
You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
The word love is never mentioned in big business.
When I'm lovin' these hoes, there ain't no love involved.
Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.
What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.
In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.
Monogamy and prostitution go together.
All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.
I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
