Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. – Erica Jong
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. – Erica Jong
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley