Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.