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.

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.

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.

Everything happened to find the balance of Life.

We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

I never drink... wine.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.