My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

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.

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

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.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

Good anecdote--bad reality.