“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
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Statement to the audience at a concert, reported in Patrick Donovan (June 3, 2005) "Scream it out loud: Cover Story", The Age, p. 2.

“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”
As quoted in "Elizabeth Taylor's 20 best quotes" in The Telegraph (23 March 2011)

“Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues

Morning Constitutions (2007)

“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”
No. 536
Aphorisms on Man (1788)

Rachel on having friends with her while she tours.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)