Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.