I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

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.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.