Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

- Bobbie Ann Mason

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

- Burt Bacharach

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

- Jesse Eisenberg

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

- John Podhoretz

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

- Lisa Bonet

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

- Nancy Pearcey

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

- Patch Adams

So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.

- Peter Hammill

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

- Robert Smith

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

- Vince Cable