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.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.