I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.