It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

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.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.