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.

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.

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.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.