Eve Babitz Quotes

“Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression.
'Money,' Mary said.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“It wasn't the way he looked that made him impossible. It was what he said. It was his sense of humor. He would not resist a pun. And any man who will not resist a pun will never lie up-pun me.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Don't let anyone tell you Joyce Carol Oates is not Shakespeare; she knows everything just like Shakespeare did. She knows what it's like to be beautiful and what it's like to be in a car accident and what it's like to be a gas-station attendant planning a robbery. She knows.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood

“There are a lot of people who don’t grow limp with hatred when they’re kept waiting. I know a whole bunch of people who don’t consider the concept of fifteen minutes time at all. So if they they’ll meet you at 11:00 and they show up at 11:25, they apologise (if they remember) for being ten minutes late - the other fifteen minutes never existed and there is some sort of common understanding among most people that those fifteen minutes are a grace period.
Since I’ve started carrying a book everywhere, even to something like the Academy Awards, I’ve had a much easier time of it, and the bitterness that shortens your life has been headed off at the pass by the wonderful Paperback. Light, fitting easily into most purses, the humble paperback has saved a lot of relationships for me that would have ended in bloodshed.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“...I had a horrible suspicion that I'd wind up in the same heartbreak hotel as I did with men. 'No you won't,' he reasoned. 'You be the man and that way you get to be the shit.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.