The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

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

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