“Booze has a different effect when you're, like, ten. Its doesn't round out the edges so much as wash you right out of the picture.”

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

“It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly”

“It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.”

“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.”

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”