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No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.