I was just sort of moving through time. 
I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker. 
The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death. 
I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother. 
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'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'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill. 
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 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 know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way. 
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination. 
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now. 
If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient. 
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. 
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. 
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll. 
You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity. 
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. 
All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after. 
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up. 
We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy. 