I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffsNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.

— Carrie Fisher

I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.

— Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

— Carrie Fisher

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

— Carrie Fisher

I thought you might supply some tenderness lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now I want it back

— Carrie Fisher

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. Furthermore, I know what I'm going to do, what I can do, what I can't do. Furthermore, 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.

— Carrie Fisher

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.

— Carrie Fisher

It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.

— Carrie Fisher