I never share credit or desserts.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.