“Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.”

“That glass sliver in the heart. Amid a fluttery-delicious Benzedrine rush, virtually every remark made to you is freighted with destiny, a sweet-painful stab in the heart. And Benzedrine and champagne, what a combination! The Blond Actress was only just discovering what everybody else in Hollywood knew.”

“Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life.”

“To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.”

“In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else.”

“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”

“There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.”