Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

by Maria Bamford

What have I wanted? To be someone else entirely. Someone who loves to live.

Diagnos-YES!

FYI, my dad’s all-time favorite quote is by Golda Meir, former prime minister of Israel: “Don’t be so humble—you’re not that great.”

The takeaway I get from this ongoing cycle is: there’s always going to be a black sheep and it may as well be you. Do whatever you want.

So if I were to open a restaurant, I’d call it “Caesar Creamers.”

Forgetting about the presence of the Rocky Mountains between Minnesota and California was a metaphor I would take in later. Yes, your dreams might come true, but there are going to be these massive obstacles that anyone could have told you about, historically documented peaks to climb that were clearly marked on a map.