You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

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.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.

Life is like business. It's 20% what happens to you and 80% how you respond”.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.