Tom

“Kiku teaches me a good lesson. She says that if you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel

“But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him.
“That doesn't matter.”
“What does?” I asked, after a little while.
“Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“All those exhibitions I smiled through. All those parties I hosted. All those dinners I presented. All that I was, I was not. I was a lie. The antisocial party girl.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Early in life I discovered that the way to approach anything was to be introduced by the right person.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.