I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary

world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To

enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the

sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world.

I am adjusted to myself."

-- Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934