25 Quotes by Dominick Dunne

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

I think I need pictures with my articles.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.