Status Updates From Inside Daisy Clover

"I glanced at faces, tried to look through them into their lives, as you might say, and find something I could recognize and touch — but it didn’t work. There was nothing at all between us, and with a sudden ache of fatigue I thought maybe there never will be, except when I sing, and in the end that’s why I have to."

"I can’t believe you'd be scared. It’s so unlike you."

"But what is like me? You think what you see on the screen is really myself?"

"Of course not. And it’s extremely fortunate. The real you would scare most people out of the theatre. [...] When I throw the word Father at you, what do you think of?"

“A garden hose."

"Is the water turned on or off?"

"It’s going at full blast."

"My God how sexual."

"If I stop to pause and reflect, which I won't, and didn’t,"

"I could understand why men went crazy in the desert. It’s an overdose of nothing."

of COURSE your songs are playing at the gay club, there's nothing the LGBTs love more than projecting onto a camp diva

"I think I’ve stopped growing. Maybe smoking has something to do with it. Anyway, it looks like 5ft 4-1/2in. is the nearest I'll ever get to the sky."

"I don't think they actually strip Dalmatians for ladies' wear – at least, not yet."
extremely funny that this book came out the year after Disney's 101 Dalmatians