A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

I have had just about all I can take of myself.

There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits

Nobody in love has a sense of humor.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

The world lies right beyond the handlebars of any bicycle.

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Mind is all that counts.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others