I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I think I do overshare. It's my way of trying to understand myself.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I outlasted my problems.

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.