[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was j…

- Eve Babitz

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

- Eve Babitz

It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

- Eve Babitz

There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away…

- Eve Babitz

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing …

- Eve Babitz

You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. Y…

- Eve Babitz

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

- Eve Babitz

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

- Eve Babitz

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, thos…

- Eve Babitz