“I was trying to stand out, trying to be the class clown and be super-funny. But everybody thought I was lame and hated me…I’ve experienced that real sense of feeling out of place plenty in my life.”

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

Stacy Young, former secretary to Miscavige, interviewed in — [Inside the Cult, The Big Story, ITV, 1995].
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Caroline Now! interview (20 April 2000) http://www.marina.com/brian.htm

NEWSWEEK 1999 http://www.jeremycaplan.com/SarahChangInterview.htm

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

As quoted in Contemporary Artists: A-K (2002) by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, p. 680
Context: I feel that we are living a very fragmented life; the whole world — you too. So I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure — that doesn't deter me in the least.

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Variant: I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is—to piss me off.
Source: Love, Rosie

Source: Prozac Nation