Quotes About Rebellion

My old man didn't want me to read. He said I'd desert my own people. But I read anyway.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.

Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.

First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It's a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We're in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There's a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I'll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.

It wasn't until I started reading ... that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

He strapped a video camera to the hood of his car and we drove around while he filmed us smashing through piles of old dead Christmas trees that residents had left in the alleys and he would set on fire. I could never get Jake to "put out" but it still was a really romantic night for me, so I stayed in touch.

You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth

You need to prepare sneak attacks on society

Nothing shouts midlife crisis louder than driving a convertible.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell A peerless peer the readiest way to Hell? I've outswilled Bacchus, sworn of my own make Oaths would fright Furies, and make Pluto quake; I've swived more whores more ways than Sodom's

Hardin wouldn't run.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.