An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.