I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it. Eve Babitz Read Quote
I wasn’t as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me ‘How do you write?’ I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, ‘On a typewriter in the mornings when there’s nothing else to do.’ Eve Babitz Read Quote
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. Eve Babitz Read Quote
The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white. Eve Babitz Read Quote
I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer… That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise. Eve Babitz Read Quote
From earliest childhood, I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. I know those winds the way the Eskimos know their snows. Eve Babitz Read Quote
I met Harrison Ford at Barney’s Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County. Eve Babitz Read Quote