Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. . . It is unrequited self-love.
Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering. '
My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of. . . . Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.
