You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.