- [Jenny is writing. Scenes from the party are intercut with a hallucination of her English professor as Abraxas]
- Jenny: I'm sitting in the chair, writhing in agony. A demon, a minor demon, is pinning me there, fucking with my head. 'Abraxas', he says, 'I'm Abraxas, the demon of lies and deceit'.
- Abraxas: So, what do you want to know about lies, my dear?
- Jenny: I'm not a liar, I try again to get up. This time I'm flayed, splayed. I feel myself screaming.
- Abraxas: I'll tell you about lies. There are white lies and black lies, and many shades of grey lies. Some lies are justified. Lies told out of kindness, lies that preserve dignity, lies that spare pain.
- [Scenes of people at the party telling lies]
- Abraxas: Everybody's a liar, dear.
- Peggy Peabody: I was a lesbian in 1974.
- Bette: Just 1974?
- Peggy Peabody: Just 1974. That was all I needed.
- Bette: Well you know, that is what we refer to - Hasbian!
- [arguing with the hotel manager about her mother's outstanding credit bill]
- Alice: Look, why don't I just pay what my mom owes you so she can get her luggage out of her room and check herself out of here. Now, how much does she owe you?
- Hotel Manager: Well, I have a printout of the bill right here. That will be $5,968.42.
- Alice: [stunned] I'm sorry... could you repeat...
- Hotel Manager: Five-thousand... nine-hundred... sixty-eight dollars... and forty-two cents. Will that be cash, check or credit card?
- Alice: [grabs the bill and looks at it] What? This is outrageous! How can one person spend over five thousand dollars on a hotel room?
- Hotel Manager: [points to the bill] Well, let's see. She stayed in the Super Star Suite, our most luxurious room. The suite is $950 a night, plus tax. She was here for five nights. She ordered room service five or six times a day, and she made a few phone calls.
- [Alice begins fumbling through her purse looking for her credit cards]
- Alice: [quietly to herself] Oh, Mother...