Eve Babitz

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

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such…

— Eve Babitz

“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would…

— Eve Babitz

“Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.”

— Eve Babitz

“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.”

— Eve Babitz

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

— Eve Babitz

“Two days before she went to New York, Jacaranda stopped drinking.”

— Eve Babitz

“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at…

— Eve Babitz

“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was…

— Eve Babitz

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

— Eve Babitz

“Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.”

— Eve Babitz

There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in…

— Eve Babitz

“She brought fresh flowers in from the tumbling-down hill where her landlady threw handfuls of wildflower seeds each spring.”

— Eve Babitz

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be…

— Eve Babitz

“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”

— Eve Babitz

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

— Eve Babitz

“This sense of 'place' -- that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.”

— Eve Babitz

“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.”

— Eve Babitz

“They must have begun in life knowing they were going to amount to something.”

— Eve Babitz

“It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching…

— Eve Babitz

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

— Eve Babitz

“The word “escape” had blown out the glow: it was so boring of these American women to imagine they were worth pursuing.”

— Eve Babitz

... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but…

— Eve Babitz

“People go through life eating lamb chops and breaking their mother’s hearts.”

— Eve Babitz

“Sunrise went straight off to take a shower. Jacaranda left and returned from across the street, where she’d picked up two half-gallons…

— Eve Babitz