My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

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.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.