Jon Richardson Quotes

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I think everyone kinda feels a little out place sometimes.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

I don't like being in houses alone.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

A house is kind of scary.