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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness."

"It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself."

"The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up."

"For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless."

"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."

"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."

"I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill."
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