Quotes from Jacqueline Susann

Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.

each time it would hurt less, and afterward she would love Lyon less, until one day there would be nothing left Ã¢â'¬â€ no hurt, and no love. She

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends Ã¢â'¬â€ there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now...it's like quitting before you start.

She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part of living - not just watching from the sidelines.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

when you're young you think you'll always be young. Then one day you suddenly wake up and you're over fifty. And the names in the obituary columns are no longer anonymous old people. They're your contemporaries and friends.

Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

Neely O'Hara: [drunk in a bar] Who's stoned? I am merely traveling incognito.

Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.

There's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count . . . You realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get back.

giving a party was not as simple as going to one. You could always leave someone else's party. You were stuck with your own.

And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you've done . . . the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get

Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?

Many girls enjoyed kissing men they didn't love. It was supposed to be normal.