I was navigating, but not seeing. — Louise Brooks

"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."

"We were Midwesterners born in the Bible Belt of Anglo-Saxon farmers, who prayed in the parlor and practised incest in the barn."

"I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away."

"The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it."

"I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so it seemed easy."

"A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world."