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.

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

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.

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.

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

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.