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Steve Erickson

Zeroville

  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    “God hasn’t commanded you to kill me?” she said.

    “You’ve had a bad dream,” said her father. “No true loving God would command such a thing of a father, and no true loving father would heed such a god.”
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    nobody ever lies about being lonely.
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    in Hollywood there are no right or wrong reasons for being famous
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    Can you say you actually stole something when you were allowed to steal it?
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    “I’ve cheated on Elizabeth Taylor,” Vikar says, patting his own head.

    “Yes, monsieur,” the other man says dismissively. “But Elizabeth Taylor has cheated on you far more often.”
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    Vikar doesn’t know it, but everything now has been reset to zero.
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    He believes his life itself is in a kind of jet lag.
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    This godforsaken stretch of Gibraltar. The cutting room in Madrid. Paris, Bombay, Tokyo, fucking Norway, wherever — it’s all Hollywood, everywhere is Hollywood, the only place on the planet that’s not Hollywood anymore is Hollywood.
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    you’re probably the only one in Hollywood naïve enough to believe it and sincere enough to mean it
  • Elinahas quoted5 years ago
    God despises the innocence of children and answers it with execution.
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