Lorna Luft

“I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.”

“There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.”

“The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.”

“I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.”

“Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.”

“The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.”

“Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.”

“When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.”

“I was born in a blender.”

“If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.”

“Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.”

“When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.”

“Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.”