Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

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.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

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.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

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

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.