Meghan Powers

“We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album: Essays

“Attitude” was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood

“I don’t enjoy your beauty any the less because I know how much it owes to the happy combination of perfect taste and ruthless determination”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“That always seemed like the whole thing; they’ll let you have stories, but you can’t ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it’s one of the charms of the place. Certain things don’t have to be thought about carefully because you’re always being pushed from behind. It’s like a tunnel where there’s no sky.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood