Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first.

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

To me, the words “food” and “guilt” didn’t belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt about the starving children in Africa.

The next day I received a phone call from Mr. Pride which began, “So, I heard you won Ho of the Year.” Well when you put it like that it didn’t sound like such an accomplishment.

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.

Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month of meeting him, he is not the one.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

This estrogen force field needs to dissipate... Move along. All of you. Now!

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.