I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (ed. Anchor, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307429506