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 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.

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.

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.