I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.