Quotes from Eve Babitz

I'm a mermaid now, half my body.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

Musicians are impossible.

Everybody steals my lines.

I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.