There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a — Frances Farmer

"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."

"I didnt think then, and I still dont, that I was actually sick."

"It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."

"Religion was too vague. God was different. He was something real, something I could feel. But there were only certain times when I could feel it. I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after Id had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. "I am clean, now. Ive never been as clean. Ill never be cleaner." And somehow, it was God. I wasnt sure that it was… just something cool and dark and clean."

"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didnt believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."

"I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over."