I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

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.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.