I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.