I was just sort of moving through time.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.