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"You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

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"I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future."

"I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned."

"I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?"

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

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