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

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

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

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

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity