“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”

“Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.”

“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”

“I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. ”

“Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?”

“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”

“Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.”