“She could get published in a sound journal that meant business and didn’t publish fly-by-nights. She was twenty-eight. It was time for her to O.D., not get published.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises. — Eve Babitz Copy Share
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance;… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“She brought fresh flowers in from the tumbling-down hill where her landlady threw handfuls of wildflower seeds each spring.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share
There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share
