Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.