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

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.

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.

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.

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.