"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?"
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Source: Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin
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