I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

The trouble with parents is they remember the things you don’t want them to remember. Then the things you want them to remember, they forget." Kosi Kamsi

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.