Quotes from Dominick Dunne

I think I need pictures with my articles.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

What am I going to say to my mother tomorrow?" she asked. "Take this in your mouth while you're thinking about it," he answered, pushing her head down on him.

He knew the kind of people who said "We'll send our plane" when they invited him for weekends in distant places.

Harry, I think I'm beginning to love you," said Kitt. "No, let's not fall in love, Kitt." "No?" "No. It's too complicated." "Yes, yes, you're right, of course, no love. Lots of lovely lust. No love. It's already too complicated.

I think you get so involved in the lives of the people you write about so you can avoid dealing with your own," she said.

You were born wrong, darling

of thing. "Were you at Cornelia's?" "Ghastly.

She understood instinctively that when one was married, love affairs had a natural termination.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

Success is the most valuable commodity.

Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.