Quotes from book

Hollywood

“I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt”

“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”

“People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.”

“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”

“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”

“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”

“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”

“Are you becoming what you've always hated?”

“How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”

“Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any…”