Patty Duke

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 been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

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.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.