Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.