Nothing good comes out of depression.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Love those who value you and call you out on your BS.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

The moment we begin to celebrate ourselves and focus on our successes is the moment we begin living.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?