Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

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

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.