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

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.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.