"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me, but I thought it was just that I was not a good person, that I didn't try hard enough," Chapter 1, Looking Backward, p. 1.

"When the mania starts to ebb and you return to the planet, you begin to recognize that you have done some very strange things. And sometimes the crisis was so practical and so real that I didn't have time or energy to worry about the wacko kind of things I did. I had to worry about what I had done with all the money or how I was going to get more, how was I going to cover those checks," Chapter 1, Looking Backward, p. 15.

"Sometimes celebrity works for you; other times it hurts you. I feel especially luck that despite my outrageous behavior, there were enough people in my life...