My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up..

Where there is hope, there is no despair..

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass..

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot..

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind..

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish..

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants ….

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt..

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out..

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test..

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction..

I simply did not want my face to be my talent..

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past..

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera..

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who c….

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself..

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn..

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain..

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the….

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be..