My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

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

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

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

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.