"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I am a victim of the American way of life, and I am a victim of the American dream."

"I am so full of contradictions. I am so full of myself."

"I long for someone to 'be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room…'"

"I felt that I had been an idiot all my life, and that I was about to become an even bigger idiot."