I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

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.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

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

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker