Quotes from Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. Everything hurts now, and nothing makes sense. DAY

It's like I've got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I've got a lifetime pass.

I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell.

It's as if I tripped and almost fell into my own grave. My only intent was to feel better—which is to say, not to feel at all.

But ultimately you could say that I don't have a problem with drugs so much as I have a problem with sobriety.

There is no room for demons when you are self-possessed.

It's not how you feel about someone; it's how they make you feel about yourself when you're with them. (Quote from Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller)

I don't hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.

Unrelieved reality. Some might call it a challenge, others a sentence. Whatever you call it, though, we here in the rehab—the newly clean and sober—belong to it as completely as slaves. Reality's puppies. Nomads, yes-men, kings.

Recently I learned this amazing thing. If you become addicted to pain killers, it can go very, very wrong for you. Who knew?

That's why the sweetness of the sexual contact is perfect, but it can only be a dissappointment.

But all I can see is the light glinting off the edges of the interesting ones.

I'm feasting on a banquet of crumbs.

He told her what was happening in the world that he belonged to and she visited.

To my father, Puff Daddy, who gave in part by taking away-thanks for the highest grade of absence available on Earth.

But how had I managed to end up at the destination of dead when that was never the direction I originally set off in? It's as if I tripped and almost fell into my own grave. My only intent was to feel better - which is to say, not to feel at all.

But periodically I do explode. Now the good thing about this is that over time, the explosions have gotten smaller and the recovery time is faster, but what is guaranteed is that I will explode.

The second reason I decided to get ECT is that I was depressed. Profoundly depressed. Part of this could be attributed to my mood disorder, which was, no doubt, probably the source of the emotional intensity. That's what can take simple sadness and turn it into sadness squared.

You must think I'm very inconsiderate for not acknowledging your first letter sooner, but I've just moved to a new house, I'm rehearsing a play, my grandfather died, and I'm inconsiderate.

So, what happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn't - so you get strangled by your own bra. Now I think that this would make for a fantastic obit - so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.

I have to start by telling you that my entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

But Greg wasn't a Republican like a person who votes to the right. No, he was a Republican like I was Princess Leia. He was a Republican by profession. Because how many gay Republican drug users do you know? . . . Oh that's right, lots and lots. But Greg was really in on the ground floor of the whole gay Republican movement that's so prevalent in Washington today.

Forgive him. It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive. And so difficult. But relationships are difficult. You've managed to maintain your commitment to him. You're the better person in that arena and in the position to forgive.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.