Quotes About Unconventionality

The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

mad drinkers and men of strange arts.

When things turn weird, the weird turn pro.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I don't want to be like Donald Trump or anything like it... I'm different than some people.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.

Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.

that she is beautiful, an impossible kind of beauty, composed of all the wrong elements: white hair, the flawless but deeply lined skin, the freckles of age dotting the hands and face.

I feel like a lot of creative people are socially awkward.

Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything….but getting a wicker basket to fit them is a fiasco

Let's quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we've never really been.

I wish she was more like a normal girl, but I'd rather be with her and deal with her eccentricities than never see her again.

He had a few eccentricities himself and was tolerant of the peculiarities of others; indeed, he rather relished the ridiculous.

There are no rules here, only possibilities!

But you know that we are different, and people rarely understand what's different.