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

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

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

"If it was God's will, it is a very stupid arbitrary blood thirsty God, and I do not like him or believe in him or respect him because he is more foolish and mean than we are and has no sense of propor…"

"I think I may well be a Jew."