I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

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.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.